To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. [....] The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.

Aleister Crowley
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To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. [....] The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter. In the quote, the author is pointing out that if we allow ourselves to be constantly fed with news that is not worth reading, we will not have time to read the things that are worthwhile.

Source: The Confessions Of Aleister Crowley: An Autohagiography

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