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But experience and observation, while best in them selves, are perhaps hard and inadequate teachers, in that they take time, are haphazard, and do not cover as much of man and his world as a good conversationalist needs. One cannot, for example, experience man's past history. Therefore, they need to be supplemented by reading. This is the quickest way to acquire conversational wealth, and the surest way to avoid painful gaps in our knowledge. It also gives us vicarious experience. Life is too short to do all the things and see all the places one should be able to talk about. Reading about them (or seeing plays or motion pictures about them) is our best recourse. One must read to be up to date, to know, and to feel. |
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