//////////////////It’s a mutually reinforcing relationship, Wolf observes: “The brain’s design made reading possible, and reading’s design changed the brain in multiple, critical, still evolving ways.” Some of these changes come across as so radical that only the realization of our being at a safe distance from such physiological alchemy introduces a semblance of acceptability.
/////////////////400-500 BCE-SOCRATES AND PLATO
///////////////.........Reminding the reader that the likes of Thomas Edison, Leonardo da Vinci and Albert Einstein were dyslexics, Wolf ponders whether we can explain the “preponderance of creativity and ‘thinking outside the box’ in many people with dyslexia?” Wolf’s rhetorical questions are tackled with grace and one always feels richer for having spent time with her.
///////////////SOCRATES AGAINST WRITING
////////////////LANGG OF BOOKS
//////////////NAMING IS A QUINTESSENTIAL HUMAN ACTY
////////////////........I believe that reading, in its original essence, [is] that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
—Marcel Proust
Learning involves the nurturing of nature.
—Joseph LeDoux
///////////////2000 DAYS PREPN B4 CHILD READS
////////////////WORD POVERTY
/////////////////0.5 SEC TO RECOGNISE MEANING OF A WORD
/////////////////SOCRATES BELIEVED BOOKS WERE IMPEDIMENT OF LEARNING
////////////////READING IS THE VOICE OF CIVILISATION
//////////////////INTERPRETATIVE RESPONSE TO READING CHANGES WITH MATURING AGE AND OUR LF EXPERIENCE
/////////////////WHITE COLLAR WORKER READS 5-8 HRS READING/DAY
///////////////////CMPTR AND INTERNET ARE READING REVOLNS
////////////////////DYSLEXIA
//////////////////////WRITING IS A SKILL,READING IS A FACULTY
/////////////////////DCDC2 GENE/ROBO1 GENE==DYSLEXIA
///////////////////READING PRIORITIZES MEANING,WRITING PRIORITIZES SOUND
////////////////////NO MAJOR STR CHANGE IN OUR BRAIN cf TO NONLITERATE HUMAN BRAIN OF 40KYA
///////////////////NOTATION>>>WORD>>>STORY>>>>MEANING IN UNIVERSE
//////////////////READING=USING SYMBOLS TO RECOVER INFO FROM MEMORY
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