cards. You don't 'read' books? How dare you consider your as 'smart' as someone who spent a lot of money for a 'formal education'; which means 'read a lot of books' and had many discussions as to what it 'all means' with the use of logical connections not 'religious faith' beliefs. In life you get 'trained for a job' and... have the choice if you want to be 'educated', i.e. 'why did certain things happen in the past, and what might occur in the future.' If you have not read 'history', then you won't know if you are 'repeating' the mistakes of the past.