The Connection – Marilyn Campbell
“”Reading is an extremely complex mental activity that engages a child’s — or adult’s — brain much more intensively than television or video games,” said Karapetkova, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Literature at Marymount University in Arlington. “When you read, you employ higher-order cognitive skills…You learn to empathize with others, and so you are able to grow emotionally as well…Critical thinking, imagination, and empathy are all qualities that are essential to our nature as human beings, and essential to our success in the world.””(more)