Obama Says Dr. Seuss Is The Best Teacher
By Emma Oulton | March 17, 2016It’s no secret that President Obama is an avid reader. But, he just got even more cred with book-lovers by praising everybody’s favorite children’s author: yep, Obama loves Dr. Seuss.
In a Q&A session with interns, Obama admitted that “pretty much all the stuff you need to know is in Dr. Seuss.” And of course, he’s spot on.
Obama won his way into the hearts of book nerds last year when he declared that reading novels made him a better citizen. (And considering he’s the leader of the entire country, he’s pretty much the best citizen there is.)
Obama claims that reading teaches you vital skills of empathy — and that Dr. Seuss taught him that lesson particularly well.
In this video recently released by the White House [2016], Obama tells the listening interns that the Star-Belly Sneetches showed him “we’re all the same, so why would we treat somebody differently?”
And as if that wasn’t a brilliant enough analogy, he then goes on to muse about the nature of responsibility that he learned from Horton Hatches the Egg. ...”
https://www.bustle.com/articles/148509-obama-praises-dr-seuss-for-teaching-him-empathy-and-responsibility
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