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READING: Are We Forgetting How To Do It?

The Next Big Idea

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Is Reading Important?

"I believe the first line of the first chapter of Proust and the squid is we were never born to read," he says. "We rearranged the very organization of our brain, which in turn expanded the ways we were able to think." The Greek alphabet seems to have been an enormous benefit to our species as a whole, CNN's John Sutter writes.

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