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by dehrmann 330 days ago
It is doing, but it's doing one thing: reading. Encouraging kids to read makes sense for building literacy and encouraging imagination, but there's a point where enough is enough, reading the 6th installment of Harry Potter is for entertainment, and they're better off riding a bike, building something, and making friends.

It's the same for adults. We blindly praise reading, but much of it belongs on the shelf at an airport bookstore, it's not particularly challenging or informing, and it might as well be video games or TV.