책책책/How to Read a Book (11) 썸네일형 리스트형 [How to Read a Book] 11일차 Though, stictly speaking, there can be no absolutely passive reading, many people think that, as compared with writing and speaking, which are obviously active undertakings, reading and listening are entirely passive. The writer or speaker must put out some effort, but no work need be done by the reader or listener. Reading and listening are thought of as receiving communication from someone who.. [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 .. [How to Read a Book] 9일차 Active Reading As we said at the beginning, we will be principally concerned in these pages with the development of skill in reading books; but the rules of reading that, if followed and practiced, develop such skill can be applied also to printed material in general, to any type of reading matter-to newspapers, magazines, pamphlets, articles, tracts, even advertisements. [How to Read a Book] 8일차 But the packaging is often done so effectively that the viewer, listener, or reader does not make up his own mind at all. instead, he inserts a packaged opinion into his mind, somewhat like inserting a cassette into a cassette player. He then pushes a button an "plays back" the opinion whenever it seems appropriate to do so. He has performed acceptably without having had to think. [How to Read a Book] 7일차 One of the reasons for this situation is that the very media we have mentioned are so designed as to make thinking seem unnecessary (though this is only an appearance). The packaging of intelletual positions and views is one of the most active enterprises of some of the best minds of our day. The viewer of television, the listener to radio, the reader of magazines, is presented with a whole comp.. [How to Read a Book] 6일차 Perhaps we know more about the world than we used to, and insofar as knowledge is prerequistite to understanding, that is all to the good. But knowledge is not as much a prerequisite to understanding as is commonly supposed. We do not have to know everything about something in order to understand it; too many facts are often as much of an obstacle to understanding as too few. There is a sense in.. [How to Read a Book] 5일차 Admittedly, television serves some of these functions extremely well; the visual communication of news events, for example, has enormous impact. The ability of radio to give us information while we are engaged in doing other things-for instance, driving a car-is remarkable, and a great saving of time. But it may be seriously questioned whether the advent of modern communications media has much e.. [How to Read a Book] 4일차 There is some feeling nowadays that reading is not as necessary as it once was. Radio and especially television have taken over many of the functions once served by print, just as photography has taken over functions once served by painting and other graphic arts. take over : 인수하다, 인계받다, 대체하다 이전 1 2 다음