Quote: Dewey on childhood
Jun 22
2009
2009
The child forced into premature concern with economic remote results may develop a surprising sharpening of wits in a particular direction, but this precocious specialization is always paid for by later apathy and dullness.
–John Dewey, How to Think, 1910, p. 219
March 11th, 2010 at 12:27 am
All in all I do not make comments on blogs, but I have to mention that this post really forced me to do so. Really marvelous post
January 19th, 2011 at 1:48 pm
If I’m following your gist, I would say that some relating of this observation to the neurological studies in which it has been found that reading and writing are not natural to the mind. Spoken language is processed in another (though related) area of the brain and is phenomenologically extant right from the start. This is why, for many, lectures (and videos) can impact the mind much more indelibly than merely reading/studying.