How to Read Understandingly

Read not to contradict nor confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.—Bacon.

When about fifteen years of age I was astonished when one of my teachers told me that I had not the least idea how to study or read. I had been attending school for six or seven years and had passed my examinations in a fairly creditable manner, so I confess I doubted this statement at the time, but I could not forget the remark. It was, however, not very long before I found it to be only too true. I had for years thought I was gaining knowledge, when in reality I had not yet learned how to look for it; I was being satisfied with chaff, not knowing how to find the wheat. How thankful I was for this awakening when. a few years later, I took up Christian Science, for I had acquired at least a slight idea how to study and read.

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