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A review by jlsjourneys
Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain by Maryanne Wolf
3.0
This is “cognitive neuroscience for a general audience” only if that audience are already generally armchair neuroscientists… I would recommend this book for anyone who educated children for a living.
A lot to wade through in an audiobook. But the thoughts I’ll take away:
1 - reading is not natural. We all need to learn. And it develops our brain.
2 - the fact Socrates argued against reading, arguing that knowledge should be transmitted in conversation & thoughtful questioning. Adding thoughtful, engaged dialogue back into how we obtain and learn knowledge strikes me as an important idea in a digital world with a very relative sense of “truth.”
A lot to wade through in an audiobook. But the thoughts I’ll take away:
1 - reading is not natural. We all need to learn. And it develops our brain.
2 - the fact Socrates argued against reading, arguing that knowledge should be transmitted in conversation & thoughtful questioning. Adding thoughtful, engaged dialogue back into how we obtain and learn knowledge strikes me as an important idea in a digital world with a very relative sense of “truth.”