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Casual Articles - Literacy In The United States Is Declining - Is That Good Or Bad?
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Reading is indisputably in decline, which upsets or pleases people, depending upon one's viewpoint. In the USA, we’ve suffered a 10% decline in literacy from 1982 to 2002.
The data are clear—-people are becoming less literate, preferring not to learn at all or to learn in other ways--hearing, visual, and touch.
Brian Tracy reports that half of all high school graduates and one-quarter of all college graduates in the USA never read another book after graduation.
Moreover, 70% of adults have not been in a bookstore in at least five years.
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The data are clear—-people are becoming less literate, preferring not to learn at all or to learn in other ways--hearing, visual, and touch.
Brian Tracy reports that half of all high school graduates and one-quarter of all college graduates in the USA never read another book after graduation.
Moreover, 70% of adults have not been in a bookstore in at least five years.
“Text,” some sneer, is an “ancient learning technology” whose time is up. (It may be ancient, but it’s certai
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Brian Tracy reports that half of all high school graduates and one-quarter of all college graduates in the USA never read another book after graduation.
Moreover, 70% of adults have not been in a bookstore in at least five years.
“Text,” some sneer, is an “ancient learning technology” whose time is up. (It may be ancient, but it’s certai
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Moreover, 70% of adults have not been in a bookstore in at least five years.
“Text,” some sneer, is an “ancient learning technology” whose time is up. (It may be ancient, but it’s certai
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“Text,” some sneer, is an “ancient learning technology” whose time is up. (It may be ancient, but it’s certainly not passe. The original word "text" means to "weave"--weaving newly-read information into your mental database of what you've read previously.)
As an avid speedreader who doesn't watch TV or DVD’s or CD’s or use electronic learning devices—except, of course, for the Internet—-I deplore the decline in reading and writing proficiency.
The academic case against reading has six points:
1. We are pre-programmed to store, retrieve and communicate information by speech.
2. Because of our pre-programming, we are driven to develop technologies to communicate by speech. (Sounds good to me--s
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