> Passively sitting down with the latest Dan Brown novel won't make you any better at reading or writing. Well, I disagree. I think that any practice improves y

> Passively sitting down with the latest Dan Brown novel won't make you any better at reading or writing. Well, I disagree. I think that any practice improves you, even if by a marginal amount. But I could be wrong, so let me rephrase that sentence as "reading serves as a practice for your reading and writing skills". I think it does not affect my point in the "reading is inherently better than TV" discussion. > Basically, you get out of any activity what you put into it. I'm going to write this one down. Thanks.