Kindly comments on Two More Things to Unlearn from School - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Kindly 12 January 2013 04:53:56AM 1 point [-]

A good understanding of literature would be like having TV Tropes inside your head. Understanding literature lets you appreciate more complicated literature: if you're familiar with a literary device, you can recognize when it's being subverted or played with.

Also, simply having read a lot lets you recognize and make quotes and references, which can be fun.