“Reading is not walking on the words; it's grasping the soul of them.”
Paulo Freire (1921–1997) educator and philosopher
“Failure to grasp centrifugal meaning is incomplete reading; failure to grasp centripetal meaning is incompetent reading.”
Source: "Quotes", The Great Code: The Bible and Literature (1982), Chapter Three, p. 58
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