Dec
21

Too Much Reading: Responsible For My Good Character Or Bad?

Great essay by Leigh Price in the New York Times on reading — old attitudes toward it (too much reading was once considered a danger to morals and physical health by social reformers) and new ones (the NEA in 2007 "identifies who reads as the best predictor of who exercises, plays sports, volunteers, votes and stays out of jail."). Price raises some questions about the NEA study, about what reading really is (one NEA report it doesn't count as reading as "reading" if you do it for school, for work or for any other reason except disinterested pleasure) and about the future of literacy. Despite various doomsayers, the prognosis is optimistic.

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