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Books! Nah, let's restrict them to cuneiform tablets. There are more than one million of them in museums, that should be enough to answer any science or histo
by informatimago 11y ago
Books! Nah, let's restrict them to cuneiform tablets. There are more than one million of them in museums, that should be enough to answer any science or history question. (Just be sure to learn Sumerian to read them).
- Turing_Machine 11y agoCuneiform? Bah. Writing itself is a crutch. We should force them to memorize thousands of lines by rote, as in the days of Homer and the Northern European bards. There's a famous section in Plato's Phaedrus which gives an argument against writing on the grounds that it will both damage the memory and lead to unoriginal thought (since people will just repeat arguments that they've read in books, rather than coming up with original ones).