Main ideas: There's a difference between gathering data and wrestling with ideas and achieving understanding/wisdom.
"Wrestling with truth, as the story of Jacob warns us, is a time-consuming process that marks us forever."
You can be informed just by skimming the newspaper. To be enlightened, you must read broadly and deeply -- history, political theory, philosophy, etc -- and make connections between what you've read.
Here she writes a lot about the mechanics of reading, and how to train yourself to improve your vocabulary, your comprehension, your basic reading skills (like not letting your eyes jump all over the page -- which I notice I do if I've been spending too much time on facebook or similar manic websites).
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