During the eight years I have written this column for WND, I have received numerous requests for reading recommendations. And in eight years of receiving critical e-mails and blog comments, I have also discovered how poorly read most people who consider themselves to be informed and well-educated actually are. It seems that at some point, “education” became confused with “formal schooling” in the popular vernacular, which is a little bizarre when one considers that more than a few of man’s best-educated, most accomplished intellectuals spent very little time in anything that would be recognizable today as a school.