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First, children may lose their curiosity because they lack cognitive stimulation tailored to their needs.
Stanislas Dehaene • How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine . . . for Now
Nicholas Carr | What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains
youtube.comReading books trains us to read in a particular way—in a linear fashion, focused on one thing for a sustained period.
Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
I know plenty of literate adults who can decode words, but who also appear to be lousy readers.
John Warner • We Need to Make More Readers
When it comes to the quality of our thoughts and judgments, the amount of information a communication medium supplies is less important than the way the medium presents the information and the way, in turn, our minds take it in. The brain's capacity is not unlimited. The passageway from perception to understanding is narrow. It takes patience and c
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Deep literacy is what happens when a reader engages with an extended piece of writing in such a way as to anticipate an author's direction and meaning, and engages what one already knows in a dialectical process with the text. The result, with any luck, is a fusion of writer and reader, with the potential to bear original insight.
Adam Garfinkle • The Erosion of Deep Literacy
We live in an age of lexical abundance. More words, more access, more content than at any time in human history. And yet something essential is slipping away. Not reading itself, but the kind of reading that once shaped minds and formed character: slow, immersive, reflective, and richly human. As Harold Bloom noted: “"We read deeply for varied reas... See more