"It’s a historical hiccup in the history of learning,” said Rich Halverson, a learning scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the lead researcher on KidGrid, a mobile app that helps teachers study and analyze student data. “Here we had the most sophisticated advances in the history of learning banned from schools out of fear."
"Sir—” remarked Samuel Johnson with droll incredulity to someone too eager to know whether he had finished a certain book—“Sir, do you read books through?” Well, do we? Right through to the end? And if we do, are we the suckers Johnson supposed one must be to make a habit of finishing books?"
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“Dès lors que l’imprimé est affecté d’une valeur marchande, son contenu l’est aussi, et le libraire (dans une moindre mesure aussi l’auteur) devient attentif à assurer la protection de ses investissements et à les faire fructifier.”
Et inversement!
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amandaonwriting:
“Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.” —John Steinbeck, born today in 1902
(via amandaonwriting)
"How mankind will cope with the avalanche of information and entertainment about to descend upon it from the skies, only the future can show."
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La Raison: Alors, il faut écrire. Mais, au fait, ta santé ne t’interdit-elle pas un tel travail? Et puis, on ne peut songer à dicter de telles pensées: elles exigent la solitude la plus complète.
Augustin: Tu dis vrai. Si bien que j’ignore absolument quoi faire.
Augustin, Les Soliloques, I, 1
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"Le concept : proposer aux utilisateurs qui ont acheté un livre de l’identifier sur leur ordinateur ou un appareil mobile (smartphone, tablette ou lecteur d’ebooks) et de télécharger aussitôt la version numérique sur l’appareil de leur choix. Il sera aussi possible d’accéder ensuite à un ensemble de services et de fonctionnalités sociales depuis un site web dédié."
"The days of such books are past, when a man could move lightly under the incumbrance of immense stores of learning, and while on his journey step aside at every turn, (…) and, after completing a volume of a thousand pages, find that he was only just beginning to enter upon his subject."
"prolixity and repetition in a poet of Ronsard’s stature no more offended or bored the men of his time than repetition and prolixity in a Bach fugue annoys a musician. Their minds, as I have said, were not easily fatigued or fretted. They had not to be kept constantly amused, like children or stockbrokers. They were not fed on spicy scraps by a semi-illiterate popular Press whose sole concern is to entertain; they sipped their reading slowly and meditatively, as an epicure sips Romanée-Conti."
