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Reading Quotes by Neil Postman
- Children enter school as question marks and leave as periods.
- Reading is the scourge of childhood because, in a sense, it creates adulthood.
- The reader must come armed , in a serious state of intellectual readiness. This is not easy because he comes to the text alone. In…
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