In a long life I have become accustomed to the usefulness of reading. Useful not simply in the sense of getting information for students hoping to pass exams or people trying to do their jobs better. Nor useful in the general sense of broadening one’s mind and comforting one’s soul. Nor useful even in the sense of entertainment for the passing hour.
All these uses, yes, but reading is also useful in the sense of giving insights on a daily basis about what is going on around you in your life so that you recognize clearly the larger context in which to place events and people in your everyday life.
Let me illustrate what I mean by giving a few examples recalled from my own, rather haphazard, reading this last week. See if the examples I give do
