Recent University of Tennessee research showed that books still increase the reading scores of under-privileged youths. The Internet, other research shows, does not. If you want to be smart in an intellectual sense, read this NYT column but then drop your computer and pick up a book.
At least that is what the columnist believes you should do, what do you think? Is the Internet really so bad for the intellect? Suspicion.
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