by Maryanne Wolf, 2007
“I’m reading this book about the brain’s effect on reading,” I said to my roommate one weekend morning. “It’s very meta, I know. I just read a section where the author explains the reluctance Socrates felt about literacy. He was afraid that the transition from an oral culture to a written one would mean that people would no longer have to really know information. They’d have it immediately available to them and wouldn’t have to question what things really meant. The author compares it to our current worries about the impact technology is having on knowledge and education and the idea that information is so available to people that they don’t have to examine it.”
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