23 February 2015
"Think fast!"
As kids, that's what we used to say at school recess when tossing the ball around. Is "Think fast!" what we're now saying when we read?
Historically, thinking and reading have gone hand-in-hand. Eric Havelock argued years back that development of alphabetic writing in Greece enabled a level of analysis not earlier possible. Havelock may have gilded the alpha, beta, gamma, delta lily, but no one who reads Aristotle or Aristophanes doubts these writers gave us a lot to mentally chew on.
