Stepping Out and Reaching Further in 2024
Reading 12 Books in 2023; Focusing on Writing in 2024.
For as he reads so will he write. So I hope you will keep reading more and more and remember that every new book teaches you something new that you didnβt know before.
As reported, President Thomas Jefferson in a letter to his grandsonβs tutor, Thomas Mann Randolph, gave instructions about his grandson, Thomas Jefferson Randolphβs education.
βI would therefore put the books into his hands, and let him read at his pleasure, without regarding whether they are childish or manly, English, Latin, or Greek, verse or prose, history, ethics, physics, or anything else. For as he reads so will he write. And if he be a boy of genius, he will write well. If he be not, he will never write well, whatever be the pains taken with him.β
As if etched in time and never to be forgotten, another American president in another century reechoed a similar message to his son. As reported, American President John F. Kennedy wrote,
As you grow older you will find that the things you really want to learn canβt be taught in school but you will have to teach yourself. You are lucky because you have manyβ¦
