Her learning literally saves her life . Anton Chekhov 's "The Bet " shows us how education is best when used actively instead of simply absorbed passively . The lawyer spends his time in imprisonment reading every type of book he can get . He reads novels "principally of a light character , books on "languages , philosophy and history " then moves onto the Gospels and "theology and histories of religion " finally ending with sciences and Shakespeare . His reading is almost indiscriminate " His reading suggested a...











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