We are not exaggerating when we say that college kids at “top” schools are actually increasingly illiterate. It had already started when I was an undergraduate (I am talking about listening to my fellow students at Berkeley reading sentences aloud word by word without any fluency or consciousness of how those words organise themselves into sentences that were intended to communicate meaning!).

The process has intensified greatly with the more recent abandonment of the jewel of liberalism — the idea that a quality public education is a human right that transcends the profit motive (see the selling out of public education to the consultants and the textbook peddlers and the standardised test parasites), political expediency (see the erosion of desegregation’s triumphs), and even temporary matters of public health (I needn’t say more).

An educated people is a resilient people. Literacy is more important than almost any other social concern, because being literate gives us the ability to think through and solve almost any other problem. https://fosstodon.org/@fullyabstract/113233257111232749

“Books can cultivate a sophisticated form of empathy, transporting a reader into the mind of someone who lived hundreds of years ago, or a person who lives in a radically different context from the reader’s own. 1/2

#Books

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/11/the-elite-college-students-who-cant-read-books/679945/

"Le monde est la totalité des faits, non des choses."

"Les frontières de mon langage sont les frontières de mon monde."

"Sur ce dont on ne peut parler, il faut garder le silence."

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus logico-philosophicus
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