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Originally Posted by Bilbo1967
'Reading' is a bit more fundamental than , say, physics, though, isn't it?
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Math and physics are objective. You get one answer from an equation. If literature was like mathematics, the right book to read would also be objective. You don't have to love math, but you have to use it. If you want to covert a recipe that serves 4 to serve 6, you need math. Books are subjective. If you don't like the pythagorean theorem, you can't just pick some other equation. But some other book than the one the teacher assigned may very well do as well. If we adults had our reading chosen for us, I suspect we would enjoy reading a whole lot less.