How To Read: AC Correspondence Course 1970
In the Ambassador College Correspondence Course, Lesson 36, in 1970 - the Church told it's members and readers of the Correspondence Course how to read. Here's what they said:
- Don't waste time reading trashy novels filled with sex and filth.
- Don't read comic books filled with violence and gore.
- Choose profitable, useful, educational books.
- Choose books on history, ecology, pollution, the population explosion, and other world problems.
- Visit the non-fiction section of your local library.
- Read Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Too Many, Famine - 1975, Our Precarious Habitat, The Hidden Persuaders
- Read a weekly news magazine for reports on global affairs.
- Read books on getting things done like How To Get More Done in Less Time, The Technique of Getting Things Done, Streamlining Your Executive Workload
- Read worthwhile books, magazines, and important news.
After telling you WHAT to read, now they tell you HOW to read.
- Read with a purpose, not aimlessly.
- Concentrate.
- Pause from time to time to summarize the material.
- Think about what you are reading.
- Read faster.
- Skim unimportant sections and trivia.
- Take a reading course for faster reading.
- Mark the material.
- Underline the important sections.
- Put stars or asterisks in the margin.
There. Now you can be perfectly assimilated on what to read and how to read it. Because you were never adult enough to make up your own mind or your own choices on reading. It was these doctrines that caused:
- Parents to forbid fiction reading for children
- Parents to think imagination or fantasy was wrong for children
- Parents to forbid all comic books (even the tame ones!)
- Married couples to be completely unimaginative and dull in the bedroom.
- The most marked up books ever found in Garage Sales ;)
- People to watch shows such as Wall Street Week or Washington Week in Review to fulfill their "watch" Obligations.
Books they recommended: (Fear religion!)
z(Read the Reviews - Trash)
(Fearing Famine)
