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Transcript: Ayn Rand
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- Talk of the Nation (NPR)
- Article date:
- December 30, 1998
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RAY SUAREZ, HOST: This is TALK OF THE NATION. I'm Ray Suarez.
Researchers say the best time to teach a second language is in early
childhood. Children are ready to soak up another tongue, embrace
it, absorb is. It may be that the best time to embrace Ayn Rand is
in late adolescence. Talk to a lot of enthusiasts, and detractors,
about when they picked up "Atlas Shrugged," "The Fountainhead," "
We, The Living," they'll tell you: as a senior in high school, as
a junior in college, a friend lent it to me on a summer trip. You
get the idea. In the anguished construction of self that's often
going on during those years between puberty and ...