What case does Montag make to Mildred in defense of reading in Fahrenheit 451?

Basically, what Guy Montag says to his wife, Millie, is
that reading books might improve their lives -- both their own personal lives and the
life of the country as a whole.

First (this is at the
beginning of Part II), Montag points out that Millie had just had the overdose of
pills.  He implies that it is because she does not
read.

Second, he talks about wars that the country has
had.  He says that maybe if people read books, they would quit making the same mistakes
over and over.