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In this passage, I read about a guy by the name of Hirsch and the idea of culture literacy. Culture literacy is defined in the informational that we read and the information retained. Hirsch defines that through a person life many things are learned but half of that information is retained. He believes that there should be a set amount of information outlined in line that every one should basicly learn and undersand. these topics range from people importan in history, to general knowledge of certain subjects. What I grasp from reading this passage is that we retain information based on our apprieciation towards the topic or subject and what is forced fed to our brain. In my opinion we dont learn everything in the world but just the things we may need in some aspect of our life and catch our attenchion. We are prepared with basic knowledge of subjects and my opinion use this information to choose a life path. To learn things that we will not use within our future or that does not catches our attenchion, proves pointless to me because this is the same information that is not retained as much as information that intrest you.