Not Just to Read, but to Read Critically

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Daily Dad

Society & Culture, Dads, Relationships, Parenting, Self-improvement, Kids & Family, Ryan Holiday, Wisdom, Education, Fatherhood

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🗓️ 10 November 2020

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

"An illiterate world is not a good one, but a world where people unthinkingly believe and accept everything they read is not that much better.

So it’s great that you’re teaching your kids to read, but are you teaching them to read critically?"

Ryan describes the important next step you must take with your children's reading, on today's Daily Dad Podcast.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Daily Dad podcast where we provide one lesson every day to help you with your
0:14.1	most important job being a dad. These are lessons inspired by ancient philosophy, by practical
0:20.3	wisdom, and insights from dads all over the world.
0:24.5	Thank you for listening, and we hope this helps.
0:33.3	Not just to read, but to read critically.
0:36.8	An illiterate world is not a good one, but a world where people unthinkingly believe and accept everything they read, it's not that much better.
0:44.3	So it's great that you're teaching your kids to read, but are you teaching them to read critically?
0:49.3	They need to know. Authors can be wrong. Authors can be questioned. A book is not a one-way conversation. It's a dialogue
0:56.0	between the reader and the writer. Show them how to take notes, how to disagree, how to question what
1:01.2	they see on the page. They need to know. No book is definitive. No one school or system has all the
1:06.9	answers. Show them how to read books from opposing thinkers. Read one book together,
1:11.7	then read something that presents a different point of view. Talk about the importance of debate,
1:16.7	how to compare and contrast. We talked about introducing them to the dangerous world of ideas.
1:23.0	That's going to mean showing them stuff you disagree with too. It's going to mean encouraging them when they have tastes and opinions different from yours. It's going to mean showing them stuff you disagree with too. It's going to mean encouraging them
1:28.1	when they have tastes and opinions different from yours. It's going to mean going down some
1:32.8	rabbit holes that don't interest you, but that they find fascinating. Remember what Epictita said
1:38.2	just because someone spends time reading doesn't mean they're smart. Matters how and what they
1:42.8	read. So start this practice early.
1:45.4	Teach them to be more than a reader. Teach them to be a wide-ranging critical reader,
1:50.3	a questioner, a reviewer, a thinker. If you want to improve this practice in your own life,
1:56.3	that's why we built the Read to Lead Challenge. It's this idea that, of course, not all readers are leaders,
2:01.7	but all leaders have to be readers. And I think by definition of father, the mother is a leader.
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