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College Students No Longer Know How To Read Books

The Ivy Leagues are not giving us our best

Nov 03, 2024
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It’s easier to brainwash illiterate people than it is to well-educated ones. When a freshly minted high-school graduate is admitted to an elite Ivy League school but doesn’t know how to read an entire book, it can come off as a killing joke, the kind that signals the death of America.

Rose Horowitch, an assistant editor at the Atlantic interviewed teache…

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