From the Living Well with ADHD center. Texts are far more easily referenced also. The pandemic caused the dynamics of learning to change as we had to adapt and move from classroom learning to online learning. That meant we also turned to digital texts and multimedia structures as part of that online learning. Researchers have… Read More Reading Is Far Better for Learning
As this website has been emphasizing for some 5 years and in so many ways, the decline of the humanities and reading is very alarming. Ross Douthat and guest Jennifer Frey ask, “What’s really driving the humanities crisis in higher education?” Douthat: As enrollment and reading decline, I asked Jennifer Frey, a professor of philosophy,… Read More The Best Defense Against AI is Reading Plato …
For one of the most famous historians in Britain, conquering the past is not enough. This month, alongside co-host Tabitha Syrett, Dominic Sandbrook is launching a new podcast – this time shifting his focus from history to literature. Hear the discussion Note: I may have spoken incorrectly or too soon about Google not allowing us… Read More Historian Dominic Sandbrook on the Decline of Reading
And the end of civilisation. Excerpt. James Marriott Sep 19, 2025 What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book because there would be no one who wanted to read one. — Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death The age of… Read More The dawn of the post-literate society
By Joseph Pearce | February 13th, An interview by The Imaginative Conservative Joseph Pearce recently answered questions from students at Benedictine College about his career as a writer and scholar. Firstly, how do you go about choosing a subject for your non-fiction writings? In almost all cases, I was motivated to write on a particular subject… Read More Reflections on Writing and Scholarship by an Autodidact, Joseph Pearce
Put the news aside for a time. If unhappiness is growing consider it a reset signal to return to philosophy where all education and earthly wisdom began. …This is an excellent series, very informative and very fair to Catholic, Protestant and Enlightenment philosophies. Thales to Sartre and beyond. 81 comprehensive episodes. One can learn something… Read More Dr. Arthur Holmes Lectures. A History of Philosophy.
Even when your brain feels like mush. by Alissa Wilkinson | Jul 21, 2022 | Vox.com I doubt you need to be told you should be reading more. There’s a good chance you struggle to make time for reading, and it feels like just another obligation, like hitting your daily step goal, or drinking more water. You’re not… Read More How to fall back in love with reading
For years now very many “influencers” (Catholics very much included of course) spend much of their time making and promoting videos to share their points of view, or those of others. The camera is alluring. Many dream of becoming popular, the next Joe Rogan or Tucker Carlson. But very few videos are all that memorable;… Read More How to Mark (Read) a Book By Mortimer J. Adler, Ph.D.
How do we experience life? What is it to be human? How do we see? What is the relationship between reading and history, reading and science, metaphysics…empathy, philosophy, religion and art? …More. — How to Mark a Book by Mortimer Adler — The social disaster: Children who frequently check social media face significant brain changes
‘Luddite’ Teens Don’t Want Your Likes. Updated. “When I got my flip phone, things instantly changed,” Lola continued. “I started using my brain. It made me observe myself as a person. I’ve been trying to write a book, too. It’s like 12 pages now…You post something on social media, you don’t get enough likes, then… Read More “Social media and phones are not real life”
