Question on Quora? How does reading affect social skills?
At eighteen, I was on a temporary vacation at a reformatory in upstate N.Y. for stealing cars. With lots of cell time, I found the library and books. Honestly, I was thrown out of the 9th grade at 16, and the fourth grade twice, and maybe never had read a book? My first book, The Mysterious Island ( author Jules Verne ), and wow a whole new world has opened! I needed a dictionary to understand the words. Ok, in my 2-year vacation I read 150 books, and now writing here. Fast forward to the early eighties, I was introduced to talk radio, Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck, and they always talked about great books. Then in 2003, I was introduced to Toastmasters and public speaking. Now my reading was 1000% better, and the kid with no education was going to start teaching public speaking to children. So now the 9th-grade dropout was going to take his message to the youth of America ( www.youthspeakingtoamerica.zohosites.com) stay in school and read, it will change your...
