{"id":274,"date":"2012-06-26T23:26:16","date_gmt":"2012-06-27T04:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/?p=274"},"modified":"2012-08-15T15:08:54","modified_gmt":"2012-08-15T20:08:54","slug":"reading-for-understanding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/2012\/06\/26\/reading-for-understanding\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading for understanding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A student who doesn&#8217;t want his work to go for nothing ought to read and reread some good author until the author becomes part, as if were, of his flesh and blood.\u00a0 Scattered reading confuses more than it teaches.\u00a0 Many books, even good ones, have the same effect on the student.\u00a0 So he is like a man who dwells everywhere and therefore dwells nowhere.\u00a0 Just as in human society we don&#8217;t enjoy the fellowship of every friend every day, but only of a few chosen ones, so we ought to do in our studies.&#8221; Martin Luther, \u201cTable Talk no. 2894a,\u201d <em>Luther\u2019s Works<\/em>, volume 54, p. 179.<\/p>\n<p>Luther advises students to carefully read and examine a text until it becomes part of them mentally.\u00a0 This advice follows the classical and monastic tradition of reading and meditating on significant texts.\u00a0 How could this advice change the way we approach our studies?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A student who doesn&#8217;t want his work to go for nothing ought to read and reread some good author until the author becomes part, as if were, of his flesh and blood.\u00a0 Scattered reading confuses more than it teaches.\u00a0 Many &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/2012\/06\/26\/reading-for-understanding\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,1,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-martin-luther-history","category-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions\/311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}