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The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read.
~Mark Twain
A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.
~Abraham Lincoln
The university phrase "I majored
in literature, science, or history" is a middle-class expression.
The upper
class prefers to say, "I read
literature, science, or history at X University."
The difference here is
striking: the upper class never believes it has actually "majored" a topic,
while the middle class can seldom claim to have seriously "read" all the great
classics and seminal works in any important academic field.
This fundamental difference in education remains a cause of
the widening gap between upper and middle class.
Indeed, the level and type of education
is a significant determining factor of the contemporary (and historical) class
divide.
It is the ability to think metaphorically (to in fact
consider everything both literally
and metaphorically) and to automatically seek out and consider the various
potential meanings of all things,
that in most separates the culture of the "haves" from the global "have nots."
Oliver DeMille, TJEd.org
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"More than just a book to read, it is a book to own and to return to again and again."
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Leadership Education helps
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Often cited by the DeMilles as their favorite work to date, this inspirational manual picks up where the primer/overview work, A Thomas Jefferson Education,
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Transitions between Phases and the "big-picture" vision to begin with
the end in mind.
Those who master the content in this book leave behind the question, "But how do you actually DO it?"
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