learning

LEARNING

I always find it amusing when a publication asks politicians what they are reading these days, and it's almost always a book about politics. The fact is that most politicians don't have time to read, and if they did I wonder whether they might not rather escape into some sci-fi fantasy.

Most of the rest of us would quickly name some work of fiction as the book we are currently reading, although biographies are often popular, too (perhaps because, like fiction, they are stories we can follow. As wonderful as it is to read stories, we should also be reading to learn. For instance, there are so many books on science and on the environment and on how things work and on other cultures and on learning another language and on health and on so many fascinating topics.

Never, ever stop learning.