The written word endures, the spoken word disappears
Interpretation
The written word has lasting power while the spoken word fades away quickly.
This quote emphasizes the permanence of written communication compared to the transient nature of spoken words. It suggests that writing allows thoughts and ideas to be preserved over time, providing a legacy that can be revisited and reflected upon, whereas spoken words are often forgotten as soon as they are uttered.
In practice
In a speech about the importance of writing in preserving culture, one might quote, 'The written word endures, the spoken word disappears.'
Television is a non graded curriculum and excludes no viewer for any reason, at any time. In other words, in doing away wtih the idea of sequenece and continuity in education, television undermines the idea that sequence and continuity have anything to do with thought itself.
Television is altering the meaning of 'being informed' by creating a species of information that might properly be called disinformation. Disinformation does not mean false information. It means misleading information - misplaced, irrelevant, fragmented or superficial information - information that creates the illusion of knowing something, but which in fact leads one away from knowing.
Children enter school as question marks and leave as periods.
When two human beings get together, they're co-present, there is built into it a certain responsibility we have for each other, and when people are co-present in family relationships and other relationships, that responsibility is there. You can't just turn off a person. On the Internet, you can.
A book is an attempt to make through permanent and to contribute to the great conversation conducted by authors of the past. [β¦] The telegraph is suited only to the flashing of messages, each to be quickly replaced by a more up-to-date message. Facts push other facts into and then out of consciousness at speeds that neither permit nor require evaluation. (70)
Everything in our background has prepared us to know and resist a prison when the gates begin to close around us . . . But what if there are no cries of anguish to be heard? Who is prepared to take arms against a sea of amusements? To whom do we complain, and when, and in what tone of voice, when serious discourse dissolves into giggles? What is the antidote to a culture's being drained by laughter?
If you want to be a writer, you have to write every day... You don't go to a well once but daily. You don't skip a child's breakfast or forget to wake up in the morning.
For scholarship - if it is to be scholarship - requires, in addition to liberty, that the truth take precedence over all sectarian interests, including self-interest.
My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions.
I listened more than I studied... therefore little by little my knowledge and ability were developed.
When you're young, you keep reading new writers and you keep changing your mind about how you ought to sound.
It is the way to educate your eye and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop.
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