10 Things Your Elementary School Teacher Told You to do that Your Secondary School Teacher Should Have Told You Not to do Anymore

I pulled this list from "10 Days to Faster Reading" by Abby Marks Beale and the Princeton Language Insitute. I'm trying to learn to read faster and it's a good book so far (of course, I'm going through it very slowly). But, this list from the introductory chapter was so good I had to include it here:

1. You have to read every word.
2. You need to sound out every word aloud or in your head.
3. Don't use your hands or fingers to help read.
4. You need to completely understand everything you read.
5. You need to remember everything you read.
6. Go for quantity - the more the better.
7. Don't skim - that's cheating.
8. Don't write in your books.
9. It doesn't matter what you read as long as you read.
10. Speed is not important.

I swear, when my friends have made fun of me for taking months to read a book they've recommended, I have pulled out almost ALL of these "fallacies" as reasons/excuses for taking so long. I'm interested to see where the book will take me next, but it's clear these ideas lasted through secondary school, college and 15 years in the business world. I'm thinking there needs to be an 8th-9th grade "adult" reading course for kids today. I bet I would have finished more of those reading assignments in college if I'd had that.