Thesis: the average 18 year old student in, say, York in AD 800 (the middle of the so-called "Dark Ages") had read more, knew more languages, was better trained in logic, could read more music, knew more mathematics and astronomy than the average student from a university today.
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Right, but reading the news every day, and interacting with people around the globe through text, just aren't as worthy as text from some nobody who was wrong about stuff because those words were in BOOKS! Obviously being in a book makes text magically important!
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Also, I read more than 50 books each year whilst still at school, and I'm hardly someone special.
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