How To Read A Book- A Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

Copyright 1940 by Mortimer]. Adler, renewed 1967 by Mortimet" /.Adler Copyright o 1972 by Mortimer]. Adler and Cllarlea Van Doren AU rightl reHJWd Including tlla right of reproduction m whole or m part m any form A Touclaone Book Pubu.laed by Simon & SchUlter, Inc. Rockefelkr Center lJ30 Avenue of tlla America, New York, New York 10020 TOUCHSTONE and colophon are reglltered trGt:lerrb of Simon & SchUlter, Inc. ISBN 0-871-21280-X ISBN 0-871-21209-S Pbk. Ubrary of Congre" Catalog Card Number 72-81451 Dedgned by EdUh Fowler Manufactured m the UnUed Statea of America The excerpt��� from the blograplalea of Cllarlea Darwin and]. S. Mil are re,mted from Great Boks of the Western World, by perm1n of Encyclopedle BrUannka, Inc. so 49 48 CONTENTS Preface ix: PART ONE THE DIMENSIONS OF READING l. The Activity and Art of Reading 3 Active Reading 4 • The Goals of Reading: Reading for Infonnation and Reading for Understanding 7 • Reading as Learning: The Difference Between Learning by Instruction and Learning by Discovery 11 • Present and Absent Teachers 14 2. The Levels of Reading 16 3. The First Level of Reading: Elementary Rea......