John Irving Quotes About Study
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It seems to me that people who don’t learn as easily as others suffer from a kind of learning disability—there is something different about the way they comprehend unfamiliar material—but I fail to see how this disability is improved by psychiatric consultation. What seems to be lacking is a technical ability that those of us called ‘good students’ are born with. Someone should concretely study these skills and teach them. What does a shrink have to do with the process?
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What was even more germane was my study of the history of religion. It was one of the few things in school I was fascinated by.
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...every study of the gods, of everyone's gods, is a revelation of vengeance towards the innocent.
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