These How to Read... chapters are all pretty receptive, but I did find something interesting near the back of this one. Adler talks for a bit about propaganda, and discusses how active reading, asking questions, etc. is an effective defense against it. We talk a lot about teaching kids media literacy and active reading, but I don't think I've ever read someone making the direct link like that. He also describes something called "sales resistance" which is an interesting term for not just accepting everything. He does warn against having too much of it (the "nothing ever happens problem") which can be an issue.
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R is for Revolution: "A Plea for Captain John Brown" by Henry David Thoreau
6-714 Other R Ideas: Reasoning, Relation, Religion, Rhetoric I was leaning more toward Reasoning or Rhetoric here, but the selections were ...
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