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1. I sat there and for the first time felt that it was possible for a writer and a reader to become true friends. The writer and reader could exchange feelings as well as ideas. Such exchange might not be as close as that among my family members, yet it is personal and private communication indeed 2. Whenever I finished reading a book, I would tell my teachers about what I had learned so as to enjoy the praise and encouragement from my teachers for my hard work. 3. Although I worked very hard on reading, I found reading could also be pleasant or amusing. I began to enjoy that feeling of loneliness or isolation reading had brought me. 4. Although I enjoyed reading very much, yet the way I read was not correct, for I was only fascinated by books and I did not have any ideas of my own. Instead, I tried to form such ideas from reading. 5. But, as a persistent and hardworking boy who believed in everything teachers or professors said, I managed to read The Republic without missing a single word. America’s schools are always controlled by those government officials in charge of education system. To tell how powerful/influential these people are, we could make a contrast between America’s schools and America’s universities, which are quite beyond the control or command of those officials. “The University should be built upon the complete freedom of the human thought. Because in this university, we are free to seek after truth and stick to it; and we are secure to tolerate any error as long as we are allowed to fight against it with the power of reason.” America’s universities and professors in charge of these institutions stress that students should not only develop the habit of independent thinking, but also strive to broaden their mind, delve into their textbooks, and have a precise command of knowledge. These days freshman students to America’s research/best universities are not always up to the admission standard. To maintain the education quality, our universities