
READING: Are We Forgetting How To Do It?
The Next Big Idea
Deep Reading and the Miracle Beauty of Reading Deeply
We tend to think of reading as a singular activity, but there are many levels or degrees of depth. Can you tell us about deep reading and the miraculous beauty of what happens in the brain when we read deeply? Yes. It's an enormous intellectual epiphany to be able to transcribe any language with characters and keep it as a historical memory that would be democratically available. We could now preserve and didn't have to rediscover the wheel generation after generation by carrying on through oral language The body of knowledge became a platform for going beyond it.
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