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“The worst feature of the Common Core is its anti-humanistic, utilitarian approach to education. It mistakes what a child is and what a human being is for. That is why it has no use for poetry, and why it boils the study of literature down to the scrambling up of some marketable "skill" [...] you don't read good books to learn about what literary artists do...you learn about literary art so that you can read more good books and learn more from them. It is as if Thomas Gradgrind had gotten hold of the humanities and turned them into factory robotics.”

“Jeg hadde aldri et inntrykk av - og jg tror at jeg ikke tar feil - at Lev Nikolaevitsj ikke var særlig glad i å tale om litteratur; men han var alltid levende interessert i forfatterens person.”

“Tolstoi retrata y, al mismo tiempo, radiografía. Cuenta las perlas del collar con que adorna el pecho de la mujer que está imaginando. Nos percatamos, entonces, de que -a través de las perlas- la mirada del novelista penetró en la intimidad más recóndita de la dueña de aquel collar. Si intuición lo guía mucho mejor que el más fino psicólogo. Y lo que más sorprende es que el lector no descubre nunca el instante en que ha penetrado, sin darse cuenta, en la escena que está leyendo". p. 169”