“A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish and facility for successfully pursuing the unsolved ones.”
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
PHOTO: President Abraham Lincoln and his 11-year-old son Tad, 1864
Silver Birch Press 
My dad told us as we grew up, to be sure to learn to read well because once you can read you can learn anything.
Russ