This hit home “The problem isn’t that students dismiss the benefits of reading, but that they have been taught to view it as a mechanism for extracting information”
Quite a few years ago, I did a Masters degree as a mature student. They pressed us to learn how to “extract information” from books. I can see why, but it ruined reading for me for a long time. I couldn’t just sit with a book and read it slowly, savouring the book…
This hit home “The problem isn’t that students dismiss the benefits of reading, but that they have been taught to view it as a mechanism for extracting information”
Quite a few years ago, I did a Masters degree as a mature student. They pressed us to learn how to “extract information” from books. I can see why, but it ruined reading for me for a long time. I couldn’t just sit with a book and read it slowly, savouring the book…
It’s crazy. I’ve seen that attitude on the reddit productivity groups, and here as well. I thought this article was well-thought out and well-written.