December 19th, 2011 at 11:26AM

Conversations through marginalia…

hekj:

Reading a book should be a conversation between you and the author. Presumably he knows more about the subject than you do; if not, you probably should not be bothering with his book. But understanding is a two-way operation; the learner has to question himself and question the teacher, once he understands what the teacher is saying. Marking a book is literally an expression of your differences or your agreements with the author. It is the highest respect you can pay him.

Mortimer Adler, writing in 1940, makes a case for marginalia as the yin-yang of reading/writing (via curiositycounts).

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81 notes Source: brainpickings.org #reading#writing#conversation#books#literacy#learning#snippets#Mortimer Adler#Adler#Authorship
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