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The written word, so indispensable to modern society, is easy to take for granted, but writing was a late development in the history of human language. The book is robustly empirical, concrete in its observations and refreshingly free of jargon, as one would expect of a teacher of English.
If she can be helped to persist in that downtime instead of being abandoned to the idiot box, ‘boredom can turn into a moment of self-reflective insight.By tracing the long history of literacy in the West, Sanders demonstrates how the culture of electronic media is changing both cognitive development and social interaction. In the best tradition of humanist controversy - from Jean-Jacques Rousseau and John Dewey to George Steiner and Ivan Illich - this deeply learned and humane work offers its readers essential intellectual and moral engagement with the technologies by which we choose to know one another and ourselves. Poultry Free range or barn reared, all our poultry are from local Devon assured farms, where welfare is imperative. A really interesting overview of the history of our alphabet, looking at how it came about, where it came from and how it evolved into these marks before your very eyes. The proper task for a letter is to allow you to look past it, not really noticing it as itself but just the words that it makes up.
But, there is a quiet satisfaction to be gained from looking closely at something which you normally take for granted, especially something as extraordinarily useful as the alphabet. It didn't just happen; somebody had to have the idea, but like riverbed stones smoothed to roundness by the passage of time and tumbling, the letters have been slowly and intermittently evolved until (for example) an ox head becomes "A", and then eventually "a". On the other hand, ‘when a teacher asks a child to sit in front of a computer in grade school, he has invoked the authority of a battery of screens—TV, movie and video.
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They continued until they had 27 letters — enough to represent all the consonants in their language. At first they simply made little counters – more like receipts or tokens than letters, but gradually, these developed into recognizable symbols that came to represent not objects, but ideas. This is a really nice Folio Society edition, with off-white pages, colourful pictures and even the pleasing red headers and sub-headers typical of 17th and 18th century texts, which is a nice touch.He provides this book in a classical manner, as a long and reflective thought making it difficult to put down. Here the humanities professor shows gaps in his hard and social science reading: Few of America's 70 million illiterates display the conscienceless violence of the sociopaths he fearfully describes.
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