rikky51

Teaching the love of reading may be fundamental, but providing the tools with which children--and, I may say--adults can discern which books are worth opening is a different problem...obviously. Vastly more books ought never to have been written than exist that are worth the reading. For example, John Galt is nothing more or less than a delusion based upon the presumed superiority of egomaniacal infants. It took the 14-year-old reader some years to apprehend the inhumanity of Ayn Rand's philosophy of selfishness and Spenserian capitalism, though as for that, that failing extends to humanist philosophy generally.

rikky51

Instilling a love of reading may be fundamental, but providing children--and, I may say--adults with the tools to make intelligent choices about what they read is quite another...obviously. Vastly more books ought never to have been written than exist which are worth the reading. For example, no one informed me beforehand, that for a 14-year-old theological and philosophical neophyte, reading anything by Ayn Rand might be unwise. Now I can neither justify selfishness (e.g., in "The Fountainhead") nor Spenserian capitalism (i.e., in "Atlas Shrugged"). John Galt was nothing more or less than a delusion based upon the presumed superiority of egomaniacal infants. Regrettably, it took a while for me to apprehend the inhumanity inherent in Rand's philosophy, though as for that, such is the failure of humanistic philosophy generally.

rikky51

Instilling a love of reading may be fundamental, but providing children--and, I may say--adults with the tools to make intelligent choices about what they read is quite another...obviously. Vastly more books ought never to have been written than exist which are worth the reading. For example, no one informed me beforehand, that for a 14-year-old theological and philosophical neophyte, reading anything by Ayn Rand might be unwise. Now I neither believe in selfishness (e.g., in "The Fountainhead") nor in Spenserian capitalism (i.e., in "Atlas Shrugged"). John Galt was nothing more or less than a delusion based upon the presumed superiority of egomaniacal infants.

rikky51

Instilling a love of reading may be fundamental, but providing children--and, I may say--adults with the tools to make intelligent choices about what they read is quite another...obviously. Vastly more books ought never to have been written than exist which are worth the reading. For example, no one informed me beforehand, that for a 14-year-old theological and philosophical neophyte, reading anything by Ayn Rand might be unwise. Now I neither believe in selfishness (e.g., in "The Fountainhead") nor in Spenserian capitalism (i.e., in "Atlas Shrugged"). John Galt was nothing more or less than a delusion based upon the presumed superiority of egomaniacal infants.

rikky51

nstilling a love of reading may be fundamental, but providing children--and, I may say--adults with the tools to make intelligent choices about what they read is quite another...obviously. Vastly more books ought never to have been written than exist which are worth the reading. For example, no one informed me beforehand, that for 14-year-old philosophical neophyte, reading anything by Ayn Rand might be unwise. Now I neither believe in selfishness (e.g., in "The Fountainhead") nor in Spenserian capitalism (i.e., in "Atlas Shrugged"). John Galt was nothing more or less than a delusion based upon the presumed superiority of egomaniacal infants.

rikky51

Instilling a love of reading may be fundamental, but providing them with the tools to make intelligent choices about what they read is quite another...obviously. More books ought never to have been written than exist which are worth the reading.