- What difference has reading made to your life?
Empowerment, of course.
I am a senior citizen, a retired professor. I can’t imagine what or how I would have been if I hadn’t had a passion for reading. Knowledge is the basic requirement to be an effective teacher. Reading is the means to this goal. As a teacher, even now, I am expected to clear doubts, and provide information on everything under the sun, and solve problems real and imaginary. All this is made possible mainly through knowledge acquired from relevant books and authors. But for my reading habit, I would cut a sorry figure answering “Sorry” to every query, every doubt. My profession made it mandatory to keep enriching myself knowledge-wise, besides genuinely increasing my love of reading.
- Any book or author that has had a deep impact on you?
I put this question to my daughter. Pat came the reply, “Of course, the Bible. Though I have been reading it regularly, even now, every time I open the Bible, something NEW strikes me.” I thank the Lord for this answer.
PROF (Retd.) PHILOMINA MATHEW
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