Word: reade
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sure it was possible to read faster than anyone had thought, but the question of how was not yet answered. It took 8 years of toil and research, working with naturally fast readers before she began to find the answers. Eventually she developed a technique whereby the average student was able to learn to read 3 to 10 times faster...
...read five times faster," she pointed out, "not by reading every fifth word, but by reading five times as many words in the same amount of time." Mrs. Wood emphasized that using her technique of rapid reading, every word on the page is noted...
SOME STUPID asshole from my school applied to Harvard and I figured that if he was applying I could too and I could do better than he could. I used to read Saturday Review and Reader's Digest and it sounded like The Place, the intellectual community of scholars, the intellectual free place where everybody questions things...
...identified with the people I read about in books: people who believed in a liberal education, the Greeks, Socrates, and that stuff. I found something in every author I read. The best education I got was in the arguments with my teachers...
...community of Cleveland. I quit that school after a year and a half or rather I was kicked out. I found the education irrelevant. I wanted to go to class and get B's, enough to get by, but outside of class I wanted to be on my own, read books I wanted to. Most of the kids were at school for other reasons, to pick up the skills, the necessary credentials, to enter middle class professional life. The education was not an experience for them, but rather serving time...