literacy
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The issue: It’s often hard to get motivated to read a famous work of literature, especially when there are so many other forms of entertainment competing for one’s attention. Proposal: Let’s create a situation so that a person can read a book as a “bonus” along with a primary activity that they were already doing. (Ideally,…
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Background: Once you know how to read, it’s impossible to see text the same way as you did before—you will inescapably recognize the symbols as letters the instant that you see them. The issue: This “automatic” parsing of written language makes it easy to forget how much effort was required to initially learn how to…
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Background: Many years ago, only the elite members of society were literate. In some places, it was even ILLEGAL for commoners / peasants / slaves to be literate, for example: 1500s Korea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangul#Opposition 1800s America: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-literacy_laws_in_the_United_States Proposal: Now that we are allegedly in a more enlightened era, there is no way to use the alphabet…
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