I just read a delightful article: "Why Read? Sven Birkets on the essential link between literacy and the imagination."
I highly encourage any reader or anyone who is encouraging young people to be readers to head over to this site and read through the article.
Here's a quote from the article to whet your appetite:
"As much as our skills and practical accomplishments bolster a sense of independent identity, imagination fills out the inner counterpart. It consolidates the “I” by making plausible the other. Imagination enables empathy..."
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