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literacy is by no means the blessing it is advertised to be, especially when people use it merely to read material that impoverishes their capacity to experience and to imagine.
Erich Fromm • To Have or To Be? (Continuum Impacts)
When reading is not taught correctly, many students do not make solid connections between phonograms (the pictures of the sounds) and phonemes (the sounds themselves). Instead, they appear to rely heavily on the visual center of their brain and areas which may be related to higher order thinking or guessing. Given the combination of the opaque natu
... See moreDenise Eide • Uncovering The Logic of English: A Common-Sense Approach to Reading, Spelling, and Literacy
discovered that if you make people read quickly, they are much less likely to grapple with complex or challenging material.
Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
A poor reader can’t dance to the prose. But the best reader can’t make lame prose dance.
Ursula K. Le Guin • The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination
Joseph Henrich • The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
Too little has been invested in the more fruitful task, to build the institutions needed to help us sift through this grand abundance of speech, to find that and whom are worth hearing, to enable listening and learning.
Jeff Jarvis • The Gutenberg Parenthesis: The Age of Print and Its Lessons for the Age of the Internet
All this frenetic digital interruption is “pulling our attention away from our thoughts,” and “suppressing your default mode network…. I think we’re almost in this constant stimulus-driven, stimulus-bound environment, moving from one distraction to the next.” If you don’t remove yourself from that, it will “suppress whatever train of thought you ha
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