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Dana Gioia: Why Reading Matters

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Uploaded by on Dec 9, 2008

Dana Gioia, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, visited Zócalo to discuss arts education. Something happens, he says, when an individual actively engages in the arts—even simply reading a novel—that awakens both a heightened sense of identity and civic awareness.

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  • Fascinating, just come across Dana Gioia . . .

  • one of the leading nations of the world not producing enough readers...this trend is getting more disturbing by the minute. I surely hope somehow someway we can still hold on to our innovative edge and not fall behind the competition. That would be devastating.

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