This essay is from the online science magazine, Nautilus. Here's a link to the original. Reading is a very recent development in world history (no more than 5,000 year old) and its distinctive to humans. The original impulse to write things down seemed to come from accounting, maintaining a record of transactions, and them moved … Continue reading Lydia Wilson — Reading, That Strange and Uniquely Human Thing
David Labaree on Schooling, History, and Writing 