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Here’s a fun article we came across that our literature-loving community might enjoy, offering further support for educating classically! We’ve included the intro below, and a link to the rest.
Pass this one along to the financial experts in your life, and especially to those who need another good reason to read classic novels:
Want to get rich? Read fiction
5 financial lessons from Dickens, Tolstoy, Eliot and other novelists
By JEREMY OLSHAN
In times of money trouble, smart people turn to a financial adviser — or, if the creditors, repo men and SEC are already pounding at the door, a spiritual one, perhaps. I read books.
By this I don’t mean anything like “The Science of Getting Rich,” “The Automatic Millionaire” or the countless similar titles adorning many an Ikea bookshelf. No, I’m talking about fiction. Novels. Nineteenth-century novels, mainly. Dickens is my financial adviser. I’d rather spend an hour with Edith Wharton than with any graduate of Wharton.
Click here for the entire article – it’s an excellent and engaging read!
