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Re:The Science Behind Making Your Child Smarter by mdesq on Tuesday December 25, 2018 @10:58PM (#18760411)
>You can get smarter by reading and people should be told that.

I'm really interested in this because I have someone who keeps telling me this isn't possible. Do you have a source by any chance?

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Re:The Science Behind Making Your Child Smarter by alan_wade on Wednesday December 26, 2018 @05:53AM (#18761591)
Do you really need a source telling you that you can learn stuff from books?
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Re:The Science Behind Making Your Child Smarter by sokoloff on Wednesday December 26, 2018 @02:56PM (#18764383)
That you can learn facts from books is fairly self-evident. That doesn’t obviously extend into gaining raw intelligence from reading, IMO.
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