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[Unedited] Kate DiCamillo with Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett

CHAPTER

Reading Is Not a Passive Act

Reading is not as passive as hearing or viewing, it's an act. Listening is an act, if community, which takes space, time and silence. You reading a story, you may be told some but youre not being sold anything. We're visiting life, life. And why wouldn't that matter so much? It's so important for kids, right? To tell them. I just the reason this, i'll read one more thing from that. The reason literacy is important is that literature is operating instructions,.  The best manual we have, the most useful guide to the country.

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