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Substitute: Going to School With a Thousand Kids

by Nicholson Baker (Goodreads Author)

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Oct 27, 2019 04:11AM

“Always the seer is a sayer. Somehow his dream is told; somehow he publishes it with solemn joy: sometimes with pencil on canvas, sometimes with chisel on stone, sometimes in towers and aisles of granite, his soul's worship is builded; sometimes in anthems of indefinite music, but clearest and most permanent, in words.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Selected Essays

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“Reading a book should be a conversation between you and the author. Presumably he knows more about the subject than you do; if not, you probably should not be bothering with his book. But understanding is a two-way operation; the learner has to question himself and question the teacher, once he understands what the teacher is saying. Marking a book is literally an expression of your differences or your agreements with the author. It is the highest respect you can pay him.”
― Mortimer Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

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