I think that having learned our letters we should read the best that is in literature, and not be forever repeating our a b abs, and words of one syllable, in the fourth or fifth classes, sitting on the lowest and foremost form all our lives.
我认为,既然已经识字,就该阅读文学中最好的作品,而不该永远在低年级里重复字母和单音节词,一辈子坐在最初级的课桌前。
— Henry David Thoreau · Walden (1854) · Reading —