The Book That Really Did Change My Life Essay -- How Education Has Chan

Periodically while surfing the internet I encounter a foliate entitled Books That Changed My Life, with a list of books that purportedly counterchanged the life of the author. I am always irritated by these pages, because I never see some(prenominal) evidence that the books had actually changed the life of the author. In fact, for most of these pages a more appropriate title would have been Books that I really, really liked a lot. Occasionally, it susceptibility have been called Books that influenced my thinking, but Im reluctant to refer to that as having changed ones life. I suppose I am irritated because I have my own list of books, and severally one of them had effected a concrete, specific change in my life. Its not very long--maybe three books--but even that fact is interesting, since it shows how difficult it is for a book to change a reader, and consequently when it happens it is something worth pondering. How to Read a Book, by Mortimer Adler and Charles ... ...you h ow valuable those sessions were to me. They gave me the opportunity to apply his techniques diligently, enough for them to become habits, and to writings that were good enough to get up up under that kind of scrutiny.   Nowadays I dont always apply the techniques most books simply arent worth the effort. But when I stumble onto something worthwhile, a draw will magically appear in my hand and I will begin analyzing it before Im aware of what Im doing.