Marianne Wolfe
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33 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 14 May
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There are many other differences, but I'll name one in particular that's important for development and for especially children and individuals over time, and that is the palpable kinesthetic nature of the book because it aids spatial memory. So, Sean, here's a book. I could find, oh, it's left side, lower, about a third of the way through. I have a spatial memory that we aren't even aware of.
So there's all these extra, if you will, affordances when we have the physical printed book.
I'm mostly worried about the young. Junot Diaz said, it's the closest thing to telepathy humans ever get. And that's an amazing, amazingly beautiful, almost mind-boggling opportunity that goes missing. It just plain goes missing when you do not ever understand what that means. that sense of interiority, that sense of immersion can give you. I'll give you the tiniest example.
Last night, okay, I probably have COVID. I feel really rotten.
So I'm thinking, you know, oh, no, I feel bad. And I have to go talk to Sean in the morning. I have to have a voice. I'm feeling miserable, self-pitying. And then I think, how can I cheer myself up?
And I went and read a half a book.
I read a half a book. And did I feel better? Yes. I feel good enough to come on your show.
We have to model love. Love? We have to model love of what happens when we are entering that state. And I think part of the problem is that we give up before we try. Great books increase the humanity of our world. And I think we are succumbing to the idea that everything's efficient, everything has to be done quickly, and we have to go with whatever the kids want.
How would we let our next generation just go down that slippery slope into the shallows? That's what Nicholas Carr and my colleagues in Norway call, you know, shallow reading.
Did she? Well, good for her. It's not just our young, it's all of us. And when I said model, I wasn't kidding. Parents have to model. But that requires some tough things on the parents and teachers. You know, you're going against the tide. But if you don't, we're going to have a... What is that...
What was that movie where everyone, the humans, they had given all of their tasks to the robots, and finally they were just these obese creatures? What was that?
Yes, WALL-E!
Wow, look at that! We're all going to be WALL-Es! You know, we're going to be cerebral WALL-Es out there! Don't let it happen!
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