The American Scholar

   Emerson talks about the value of books in The American Scholar. A part I found interesting was when he talked about students today not creating their own ideals, calling them bookworms. They attain everything they know from reading about some other scholar's studies. This is definitely a fact. That being said, not everyone is born to be great at creating their own ideals like Emerson. This is a skill some are born with while others much research subjects and develop an opinion on other scholars information. While I agree that books may cloud judgment on some subjects not everything is meant to have 7 billion viewpoints from different people in history. Sometimes there only needs to be a certain group of people that have ideas that exceed anybody else who tries.