Books are better than television, the internet, or the computer for educating and maintaining freedom.
Books matter because they state ideas and then attempt to thoroughly prove them. They have an advantage precisely because they slow down the process, allowing the reader to internalize, respond, react and transform. The ideas in books matter because time is taken to establish truth, and because the reader must take the time to consider each idea and either accept it or, if he rejects it, to think through sound reasons for doing so. A nation of people who write and read is a nation with the attention span to earn an education and free society if they choose.
Tag: book media attention-span thomas-jefferson-education
She's always getting into trouble because she gets bored really really easily. [...]
My mum says it's because Celia has an attention span the size of a sesame seed.
Celia's mum says it's because Celia's identity is unfurling itself slowly, like a tulip bud, and it's a breathtakingly beautiful thing to see.
Tag: humor humour attention-span getting-into-trouble hyperactivity
I want to lengthen, not shorten, my attention span, and most of the material splendors of the twenty-first century bully me in the opposite direction. The fault is mine, I'll admit. I'm too slow-witted, reluctant to evolve, constitutionally unable to get with the program. I can't afford the newest gadgets and I'm not a natural multitasker.
Phillip ConnorsTag: multitasking attention-span may 73 fire-season
My adult life has been a patchwork of projects, most of which were fleeting fancies of overreaching vision. I tend to seize on things, only to abandon them due to a lack of time, talent or inclination.
Susan WiggsTag: attention-span
An exceedingly confident student would in theory make a terrible student. Why would he take school seriously when he feels that he can outwit his teachers?
Criss JamiTag: imagination learning school confidence humility genius arrogance theory teaching pride ego attention students attention-span gifted
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Storytelling--that's not the future. The future, I'm afraid, is flashes and impulses. It's mode up of moments and fragments, and stories won't survive.
Dexter PalmerTag: art storytelling attention-span future-prediction
I don't like phones. You can't be sure people are paying attention to you when you're talking to them.
Tawni O'DellTag: mindfulness attention-span paying-attention phones
I get into a tearing passion about something I know very little about, and when I learn more my passion ebbs away.
John BuchanTag: learning passion attention-span
The generation that had information, but no context. Butter, but no bread. Craving, but no longing.
Meg WolitzerTag: social-media attention-span young-adults next-generation
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