Quotes About Engagement

understanding is a two-way operation; the learner has to question himself and question the teacher.

The reader who fails to ponder, or at least mark, the words he does not understand is headed for disaster.

Don't try to resist the effect that a work of imaginative literature has on you.

Being relevant simply consists in paying close attention to the point that is being talked about and saying nothing that is not significantly related to it.

TURN THE PAGES, DIPPING IN HERE AND THERE, READING A PARAGRAPH OR TWO, SOMETIMES SEVERAL PAGES IN SEQUENCE, NEVER MORE THAN THAT.

The undemanding reader asks no questions-and gets no answers.

Many readers fear that it would be disloyal to their commitment to stand apart and impersonally question what they are reading. Yet this is necessary whenever you read analytically.

There is no inactive learning, just as there is no inactive reading.

Analytical reading is thorough reading, complete reading, or good reading—the best reading you can do.

6. Finally, TURN THE PAGES, DIPPING IN HERE AND THERE, READING A PARAGRAPH OR TWO, SOMETIMES SEVERAL PAGES IN SEQUENCE, NEVER MORE THAN THAT.

One reason for this is that the media are designed in such a way that thinking seems unnecessary (albeit superficial).

Dado que toda a leitura consiste em uma atividade, então toda a leitura tem de ser ativa. A leitura totalmente passiva é algo impossível - afinal, não conseguimos ler com os olhos paralisados e com a mente adormecida.

o leitor ou ouvinte são como o apanhador (catcher) num jogo de beisebol.

Not simply by following an author's arguments, but only by meeting them as well, can the reader ultimately reach significant agreement or disagreement with his author.

RULE 5. FIND THE IMPORTANT WORDS AND THROUGH THEM COME TO TERMS WITH THE AUTHOR.

Just as teaching will not avail unless there is a reciprocal activity of being taught, so no author, regardless of his skill in writing, can achieve communication without a reciprocal skill on the part of readers.

We must in such a way, when reading a story, that we let it act on us. We must allow it to move us, we must let it do whatever work it wants to do on us. We must somehow make ourselves open to it.

Reading a book is a kind of conversation. You may think it is not conversation at all, because the author does all the talking and you have nothing to say. If you think that, you do not realize your full obligation as a reader—and you are not grasping your opportunities.

We must act in such a way, when reading a story, that we let it act on us. We must allow it to move us, we must let it do whatever work it wants to do on us. We must somehow make ourselves open to it.

The mistake here is to suppose that receiving communication is like receiving a blow or a legacy or a judgment from the court. On the contrary, the reader or listener is much more like the catcher in a game of baseball.

Marking a book is literally an expression of your differences or your agreements with the author. It is the highest respect you can pay him.

To read a story well you must have your finger on the pulse of the narrative, be sensitive to its very beat.

importance of letting an imaginative book work on you.

Unless you read it quickly you will fail to see the unity of the story. Unless you read intensely you will fail to see the details.