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Reading was necessary because it's a highly evolved and compressed way to convey information, which refines, distills, and focuses thought, and gives access to
by coldtea 3y ago
Reading was necessary because it's a highly evolved and compressed way to convey information, which refines, distills, and focuses thought, and gives access to millenia of civilizational expression, wisdom, and experience.
The video-centric world of 21st century is a Beavis and Butthead vision of culture, where we regress to stream-of-consciousness communication.
We don't gain oral communication (we always had that alongside texts). We lose reading.
- 082349872349872 3y ago> We don't gain oral communication (we always had that alongside texts). We lose reading. The reason I've heard that we have public schooling in the first place is because the Prussian Army convinced the Prussian State (to the degree these were distinct organisations) that it needed literate soldiers as a prereq for Auftragstaktik; that having been successful, everyone else copied their system. see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission-type_tactics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission-type_tactics and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prussian_education_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prussian_education_system
- coldtea 3y agoYes, but that concerns how schooling for the masses came about. People that expected to be active citizens, participate in the state, drive society forward, etc., have been educated for millenia, in ancient Greece, Rome, China, Egypt, all the way to today. So unless we strive to live like peasants and subjects to royalty of the old times, or like the dystopic living-in-a-drugs-and-entertenment-blur degraded population of "Brave New World", we should not lose education.