Colin, you are right insofar, as reading educates. But, if I look over the bookmarket some of the new releases make me cry. I.e. Books like the one of Dan Browne, which mix up reality with fiction- they can be taken as a half-truth. But what is right and what is wrong? Do you ever know when the Reality was mixed with fiction, how to sort it out? Me, I don`t think I can out of mind. If I doubt something I`ll have a go to make up my informations about the weak point. Talking about Fiction.... we have to submit, that a balanced mind, which picked up education will sort out the Fiction from Reality.
Somebody, who wasn`t very much open-minded to education and knowledge will not have the talent to sort this out. And this is (in my opinion) exactly the reason, why some say that a man like Winston Churchill was a myth.
Sorry that I have lead the discussion back to the beginning, but this is exatly where the circle closes. Education is the key to knowledge. Your first education starts with your parents and will be made up by school. Then, in a certain age it`s up to yourself, to care about your education. And to be honest, we live in a multimedia- society. With nearly overfloating masses of information. And obviously the education of the masses seems to fade. Finally it is a matter of your duty to care about education. But, if you watch the youngsters, their teachers, our complete society.... DUTY, RESPONSIBILITY, HONOUR, HELPFULLNESS..... and dozen other attitudes had become minor. The quick money, the hunt for profit ahd left attitudes behind. My son is a teenager, he is no exception. I often ask myself: What did I wrong? Or did I proof myself wrong? Do I hang onto the wrong attitudes, the wrong values in life? Am I a anachronism?
Cermon over.
Jörg