Rebecca Mead Quotes
Books gave us a way to shape ourselves - to form our thoughts and to signal to each other who we were and who we wanted to be. They were part of our self-fashioning, no less than our clothes.
The best education for a writer, I think, is to read a lot - college can be a good place to do that.
A book may not tell us exactly how to live our own lives, but our own lives can teach us how to read a book.
My master's degree was in journalism, but everything important I ever learned about being a journalist I learned on the job.
I think it's a terrible mistake to only think in terms of a degree "buying" you something.
I'm not a policy expert - I am only arguing that there is more to an education than an economic ticket.
