Reading, I think, should be kept independent of the regular school exercises. Children should be encouraged to read for the pure delight of it. The attitude of the child toward his books should be that of unconscious receptivity. The great works of the imagination ought to become a part of his life, as they were once of the very substance of the men who wrote them. It is true, the more sensitive and imaginative the mind is that received the thought-pictures and images of literature, the more nicely the finest lines are reproduced.
Anne Sullivan Macy (Helen Keller's teacher) in
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