[How to Read a Book] 10일차

 

Since reading of any sort is an activity, all reading must to some degree be active.

 

Completely passive reading is impossible; we connot read with our eyes immobilized and our minds asleep.

 

Hence when we contrast active with passive reading, our purpose is, first, to call attention to the fact that reading can be more or less active, and second, to point out that the more active the reading the better.

 

One reader is better than another in proportion as he is capable of a greater range of activity in reading and exerts more effort.

 

He is better if he demands more of himself and of the text before him.