Cameron

“Comprehension processes [for young readers] grow.... [when] they leave the surface layers of text to explore the wondrous terrain that lies beneath it.

The reading expert Richard Vacca describes this shift as a development from "fluent decoders" to "strategic readers"--"readers who know how to activate prior knowledge before, during and after reading, to decide what's important in a text"....”
― Maryanne Wolf, Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain

“Modern virtues are self-referential. There's a relentless circling back to the individual's subjective state of being. But we are of no use to ourselves or anyone else if we cultivate our virtues in splendid isolation. The wellbeing of the group is a necessary precondition to all and any individual needs, ethics and choices.

The elevation of vulnerability as a virtue creates an environment increasingly antithetical to free speech. If my ideas are even remotely likely to offend your feelings, then there is enormous pressure on me not to express them.

The present-day promotion of feelings over facts is a clear danger to democracy.

Neoliberalism sees your earnest desire to live by 21st-century virtues, and promptly, efficiently and shamelessly monetises it.”
― Lucinda Holdforth

“Be independent of the good opinion of other people.”
― Abraham Maslow

“There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all.”
― Peter Drucker