“Now, the first thing ... the moral panic about reading, which we have in common with the Bloomsbury intelligentsia ... He wishes the governing elite still read widely and better appreciated life’s complexity.
... that the brain isn’t born with the natural ability to read as a learned skill and that there are multiple places in the brain that build pathways and connections as the individual learns to read.
Unfortunately, 14% of adults in the US can't read, 21% of adults in the US read below a 5th-grade level and 19% of high school graduates in the US can't read at all ... In 2024, the average reading score ...
The trick is to read for architecture, not ornamentation ... Sen explains this further when she says, “Ignore unfamiliar words on the first read and pay attention to transition ... This anchors the reading.