Forum members who'd never opened a book in their whole lives

[Teutone]

I think it depends on what books you read.

I think Mortimer isn't dumb, he is chemically "lobotomized" by risperidone or whatever medications he uses to battle his schizophrenia.

My grandfather used to develop schizophrenia along with dementia in his mid 90s, the moment he had to take risperidone I also noticed a significant decline of his sharpness and intelligence.

Plus reading alone doesn't make you a intelligent person, if you read fiction, it doesn't mean anything.
I still advocate for reading anything including fiction as it improves your attention span combating the social media swiping that declines your attention span.

[Scarface F]

I think it depends on what books you read.

I think Mortimer isn't dumb, he is chemically "lobotomized" by risperidone or whatever medications he uses to battle his schizophrenia.

My grandfather used to develop schizophrenia along with dementia in his mid 90s, the moment he had to take risperidone I also noticed a significant decline of his sharpness and intelligence.

Morti isn't dumb, he had excellent grades in Austrian gymnasium and went to study law
Intellectually challenged people can't do that.

[Teutone]

Morti isn't dumb, he had excellent grades in Austrian gymnasium and went to study law
Intellectually challenged people can't do that.

He is also Trilingual if I recall right.

English, Serbian and German.

[Dandelion]

I never saw Mortimer as not intelligent and I was even very shocked when he shared his results from a test he took. A very curious individual actually with knowledge of a wide array of things. IQ tests are not that accurate in determining intelligence if you ask me. A lot of things that they ignore.

[Victor]

In Hungary, we have old prussian school system, it based on huge lexical knowledge. We must learn tons of irrelevant things what you will never use in your life, for example classical music history and such bullshit. I have read tons of classic books from hungarian serious literature, or Romeo and Julia, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Iliada by Homer, Antigone by Sophocles, Divine Comedy by Dante, Decameron by Boccaccio, Tartuffe by Moliere, Faust by Goethe etc

Same here. We have Russian literature lessons and Foreign literature which seem to include same authors as in your system.

[Victor]

Morti isn't dumb, he had excellent grades in Austrian gymnasium and went to study law
Intellectually challenged people can't do that.

Really average minded people confuse weird people with stupid people or uneducated people.

[Insuperable]

Same here. We have Russian literature lessons and Foreign literature which seem to include same authors as in your system.

All that literature crap needs to be taken out of the 21th century schooling system. It's the 21th century after all. I have never read a single novel from high school subject called 'Croatian'. Like I am crazy to read hundreds of pages of Ana Karenina or whatever. That Croatian teacher never liked me. In the end I got a Masters degree in electrical engineering. Muh novels and 'books'. Insteading of reading hundreds and hundreds of pages of useless literature students should be taught information technology and something like that.

[Victor]

All that literature crap needs to be taken out of the 21th century schooling system. It's the 21th century after all. I have never read a single novel from high school subject called 'Croatian'. Like I am crazy to read hundreds of pages of Ana Karenina or whatever. That Croatian teacher never liked me. In the end I got a Masters degree in electrical engineering. Muh novels and 'books'. Insteading of reading hundreds and hundreds of pages of useless literature students should be taught information technology and something like that.

It's not useless for one's lexicon, understanding the World of the past and current days not as something abstract, unluckily there are too much people who may be very good specialists ib some sphere but you have nothing to talk about with them, topics are limited to their job, something about family, memories from the army, maybe something about cars. While you have some specialists who even didn't have to read any literature as a must, but did it out of curiosity, for own interest, and they have really wide outlook.

[Sylvanas]

Reading improves concentration, vocabulary, critical thinking, memory, analytical skills etc.

[Insuperable]

Reading improves concentration, vocabulary, critical thinking, memory, analytical skills etc.

Reading 'real' stuff does it much better.