Tag: Literacy (decline)

People are standing inside building looking at mobile phone screens

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 2, 2026

Categorized
Education, Politics, Social Media

Tagged
Literacy (decline), Rose Horowitch, Sam Leith, Sarah Kuta}

Does a Decline in Reading Mean a Decline in Thinking?

_{Thinking is natural to humans. But the current decline in reading may signal a worrisome decline in a particular TYPE of thinking} _{Denyse O'Leary
October 2, 2026

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Education, Politics, Social Media}

If we reach the point where most people cannot muster the level of sustained attention needed to read a book, political changes unwelcome to many of us are inevitable.

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News
Date
January 8, 2025

Categorized
Education

Tagged
Aldous Huxley, BookTok, Brave New World (aversion to books), Bureau of Nooks and Crannies, Civitas, Gamification of libraries, Hitler’s and Stalin’s Misuse of Science (Frontline 2023), Libraries (decline), Libraries (entertainment vs. education), Libraries and adults, Literacy (decline), Los Angeles Public Library System, Rock and Read, Steven Tucker, Storytime Yoga}

A Library Without Books Is Like a Book Without Pages

_{There is a disturbing new phenomenon afoot – babies and toddlers are turning up at nurseries and schools not knowing what books are, or how to use them} _{News
January 8, 2025

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Education}

Increasingly, library staff are told to ‘free up’ their bookshelves by discarding books, that one day libraries won’t have books but rather fun and games.