Former President Barack Obama talked about empathy in an interview with novelist Marilyn Robinson. He said he learned how to be a citizen from novels, which are "extraordinary empathy exercises" Rufus Jones: Do we deploy those very important deep reading processes that give us the ability to discern the truth?
Maryanne Wolf is a professor at UCLA and the renowned author of "Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain" and "Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World." She says deep reading makes you a better thinker, communicator, and citizen. But what happens if you lose the ability to read slowly, patiently, and critically? Is there anything you can do to get it back?
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