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Reading requires active engagement and critical thinking from "summary" of How to Read a Book by Mortimer J. Adler,Charles Van Doren
Reading is not a passive activity; it demands active engagement and critical thinking from the reader. When you pick up a book, you must be prepared to enter into a dialogue with the author, questioning their arguments, evaluating their evidence, and ultimately forming your own opinions. This process requires mental effort and a willingness to challenge your own assumptions. To truly engage with a text, you must be willing to grapple with its ideas, to question its premises, and to consider its implications. This means that you cannot simply skim the surface of a book, hoping to absorb its content through osmosis. Instead, you must actively interrogate the text, asking yourself why the author is making certain claims, what evidence they provide to support those claims, and whether their arguments are logically sound...
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