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Education is and should be primarily about intellectual navigation, about—I scruple not to say it—skimming well, and reading carefully for information in order to upload content. Slow and patient reading, by contrast, properly belongs to our leisure hours.
The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction
Alan Jacobs
But if you think of reading in this way, as a means of uploading data, then reading will always seem too slow. If I can transfer the complete contents of a book to my computer in ten seconds, why does it take me a week to transfer it to my brain? And why is that latter form of uploading so error-prone and so often incomplete?
The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction
Alan Jacobs
The paradigm that we're in may seem invincible. It may seem rational and normal, but it also at one time seemed rational and normal that every single legislator and judge was a man. It used to seem rational and normal even to the founders of America that you would own slaves, right? What seems rational and normal at one point becomes discredited over time.
Marjorie Kelly on “Wealth Supremacy” & the Blueprint for a New Economy
Christopher Marquis
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