Nama : Syaeful Anwar

NIP : 18105023

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Book Title : How to Read a Book, The Classic Guide To Intelligent Reading

Authors : Mortimes J. Adler and Charles Van Doren

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1. There are many kinds of reading and degrees of ability to read. It is not contradictory to
say that this book is for readers who want to read better or want to read in some other
way than they now can. (firs chapter, page 1).

2. There are rules for each of the different steps you must take to complete the reading of a
whole book. (firs chapter, page 2).

3. Knowing how to read a book well was like any other art or skill. There were rules to learn
and to follow. Through practice good habits must be formed. There were no
insurmountable difficulties about it. Only willingness to learn and patience in the process
were required. (firs chapter, Page 2).

4. One of the primary rules for reading anything is to spot the most important words the
author uses. (chater two, page 1).

5. You already know "reading" is one of the most important words in this book. (chater two,
page 1).

6. I shall subsquently discuss the relation of reading and listening, for the rules of good
reading are for the most part the rules of good listening, though perhaps harder to apply
in the latter case. (chater two, page 2).

7. A good catcher is one who stops the ball which has been hit or pitched. The art of
catching is the skill of knowing how to do this as well as possible in every situation.
(chapter two, page 4).

8. There would appear to be several types of reding: for information, for entertainment, for
understanding. (chapter two, page 4).

9. What are the conditions under which this kind of reading takes place? There are two. In
the first place, there is initial inequality in understanding. The writer must be superior to
 the reader, and his book must convey in readable form the insights he possesses and
his potential readers lack. (chapter two, page 5).

10. In the second place, the reader must be able to overcome this inequality in some
degree, seldom perhaps fully, but always approaching equality with the writer. To the
extent that equality is approached, the communication is perfectly consummated.
(chapter two, page 5).

11. ONE rule of reading, as you have seen, is to pick out and interpret the important words
in a book. (chapter three, page 1).

12. There is another and closely related rule: to discover the important sentences and to
understand what they mean. (chapter three, page 1).

13. The words "reading is learning" make a sentence. (chapter three, page 1).

14. When you have found out the meaning of each of the three words, as I have used them,
you will have discovered the proposition I am trying to convey. (chapter three, page 1).

15. To interpret the sentence, we must first ask: What os learning? Obviously, we cannot
discuss learning adequately here. (chapter three, page 1).

16. It was becoming apparent why they did not have the faintest understanding of what they
had read. It was just words they had memorized to be able to repeat somehow when I
shot an question at them. That was what they did in other courses. (chapter three, page
2).

17. When we read for information, we require facts.When we read to understand, we learn
not only facts but their significance. (chapter three, page 2).

18. We know that some, but not all, learning can be achieved through reading: the
acquisition of knowledge but not of skill. (chapter three, page 4).

19. In the history of education, men have always distinguished between instruction and
discovery as sources of knowledge. (chapter three, page 5).

20. The other error is made by those who write about the art of thinking as if it were identical
with art of discovery. (chapter three, page 5).
My opinion :

a very good book to read. Teach readers about the art of reading a book. To understand the
contents of a writing, taught various tricks and techniques. among them by knowing the words
that often appear in the text.