The world revolves at such a dizzying pace that he is lost in the kaleidoscopic phantasmagoria of modern life. In such a world, the cultivation of the mind becomes an unlikely ever-receding Shangri-La that forever eludes his grasp. He withdraws as the only way to survive in a world that suffocates him with little chance for independence of mind. The memory of a commonly shared cultural heritage no longer exists, a casualty of a much larger problem of the loss of inherited meaning in the modern world. The reality is that few high-school students read anymore, even in Honors and Advanced Placement courses.

Source: Huffington Post January 15, 2017 23:48 UTC