oposed another list of r's, which he considers three of the four on his new list to be "available, in some degree, to every student who is willing to seek them out" (56). The first r is the art of recovery of meanings. In defining this first r, Booth states that it is "the art of recovering what other people mean and not what we'd like them to mean"(59). While this sounds fairly easy, it is very much the opposite. Booth believes so many of us have fallen into the habit of assuming we listen with an open mind to other people's thoughts and ideas, when in fact we essentially sort the ideas into categories we have already formed in our minds and more often than not use that to invalidate the information we are trying to learn. Zutshi 2 The second r is rejection. Rejection, Booth believes, is something that can be worked on mainly by uneducated minds. We need to be able to discern which ideas can go together and which ones do not. The best example Booth gives of this is: The uneducated mind will accept slogans like "students are the most exploited class in America today," even though it also knows that migrant workers and black workers have been immeasurably more exploited and have a right to be insulted by the comparison with affluent middle-class students (62). Although he targets the uneducated

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