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Beautiful words Proust ... beautiful words 😍 I love the way Wolf is explaining reading and how we translate information 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼📖😋

Love these quotes 😍📖😋

Agree Mr. Epstein that would be great if we could find out what our favorite Author is reading 📖😋

I‘m going to finish this book as I put it down in May before my psychology conference and I‘ve been so busy with school and moving I‘ve not had the chance to pick it back up. I‘ve been neglecting my good for your mind growth books 📖😋 “Reading is one of the single most remarkable inventions in history” by Maryanne Wolf

Who has read this one? Kinda slow beginning. I need encouragement to keep going

Boring and tediously written. Some good points raised, but I really had to force myself to finish it. In between the verbose historical context, and the meandering supposition, actual information on the connectome is actually few and far between

Fantastic book 📙

If adults commit adultery, do infants commit infantry? If olive oil is made from olives, what do they make baby oil from? a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian consume? A writer is someone who writes. But fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce, hammers don't ham...If the plural of tooth is teeth, shouldn't the plural of booth be beeth? If they wrote a letter, perhaps they also bote their tongue.

Though Dennett claims this is about thinking tools and discussing thinking problems ("boom crutches"), the Boston Globe is more accurate: "an excellent introduction to Dennett's body of thought." Thus, Intuition Pumps is less "how to think" and more "how to think like Dennett thinks" That being said, there are some valuable thought experiments here to get the mind going about important subjects like evolution, consciousness, and free will.

I started teaching at my local community college and have been frustrated by the fact that I don‘t have any training as an educator - I don‘t have an education degree. This has helped open my eyes to the way we learn so that I can adjust the way I teach. Very interesting information for students and teachers alike.