The art of reading is to skip judiciously.
Interpretation
Reading wisely means focusing on important parts while avoiding unnecessary details.
Alexander Hamilton suggests that effective reading involves the skillful selection of what to read, allowing the reader to engage with substantive content while bypassing less relevant information. This approach enhances understanding and retention of key ideas, emphasizing that not all text requires equal attention.
In practice
A teacher might use this quote to encourage students to prioritize important texts.
When men, engaged in unjustifiable pursuits, are aware that obstructions may come from a quarter which bare apprehension of opposition from doing what they would with eagerness rush into if no such external impediments were to be feared.
The tendency of a national bank is to increase public and private credit. The former gives power to the state, for the protection of its rights and interests: and the latter facilitates and extends the operations of commerce among individuals. Industry is increased, commodities are multiplied, agriculture and manufacturers flourish: and herein consists the true wealth and prosperity of a state.
It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.
The Achaeans soon experienced, as often happens, that a victorious and powerful ally is but another name for a master.
The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge right or make good decision.
The true principle of a republic is that the people should choose whom they please to govern them. Representation is imperfect, in proportion as the current of popular favor is checked. The great source of free government, popular election, should be perfectly pure, and the most unbounded liberty allowed.
Reading can be a road to freedom or a key to a secret garden, which, if tended, will transform all of life.
When you wage war on the public schools, you're attacking the mortar that holds the community together. You're not a conservative, you're a vandal.
History is the most aristocratic of all literary pursuits, because it obliges the historian to be rich as well as educated.
I had great mentors in my parents who always sought to understand the world around them. And they would push me to really think things through.
Television is a non graded curriculum and excludes no viewer for any reason, at any time. In other words, in doing away wtih the idea of sequenece and continuity in education, television undermines the idea that sequence and continuity have anything to do with thought itself.
What's amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It's so far away in time that they can't appreciate what it means for their whole life.
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