the inestimable importance of the unique background knowledge that comes to us from what we read. I am concerned about both what we read and how we read. Does the content of what we are reading in our present milieu provide us sufficient background knowledge both for the particular demands of life in the twenty-first century and for the formation of the deep-reading brain circuit? We seem to be moving as a society from a group of expert readers with uniquely personal, internal platforms of background knowledge to a group of expert readers who are increasingly dependent on similar, external
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