Just because we _can_ do things a certain way doesn't mean we _should_… > The lesson might be: Let’s place an even bigger stress on “sentences from books,” particularly in education, in order to ensure that, in an age characterized by the mass consumption of updates, tweets, and snippets, we maintain our capacity for more sophisticated thinking, writing, reading, and, yes, remembering. Surely, we wouldn’t want to throw out five thousand years of cognitive gains — however “anomalous” they may be — and allow ourselves to drift back to “pre-literate communication.” But that’s not the conclusion the scholars come to. A third member of the research team, Laura Mickes, from the University of Warwick, says, “Writing that is easy and quick to generate is also easy to remember – the more casual and unedited, the more ‘mind-ready’ it is. Knowing this could help in the design of better educational tools.” > > Better?
