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“They don't read, and they can't write to save their lives. They've never heard of most of the presidents of the United States, they think America won the war in Vietnam, they think Prohibition was a law that made it illegal to own slaves. That was Cole's father, fuming about his students. Cole suspects at least some of this could also be said about Tracy. And it's not just what they don't know, it's what they don't want to know. Tracy is what his father would call intellectually lazy.” — Sigrid Nunez
They don't read, and they can't write to save their lives. They've never heard of most of the presidents of the United States, they think America won the war in Vietnam, they think Prohibition was a law that made it illegal to own slaves.
That was Cole's father, fuming about his students. Cole suspects at least some of this could also be said about Tracy.
And it's not just what they don't know, it's what they don't want to know.
Tracy is what his father would call intellectually lazy.