但是怎样阅读,阅读什么呢?看法却有分歧。比如,在大学课程里,我们往往分析精读和泛读。外国朋友反对精读,主张“速读”,而中国一些同志却把“精读”看得太重了,甚至连泛读课也做精读处理。其实,读书有精有泛。300多年前,培根(Francis Bacon)在他那篇有名的随笔《谈读书》(Of Studies)里早就讲清楚了:“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested,...”