Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World

by Maryanne Wolf

Harvard physicist John Huth writes about the more universal importance of knowing where we are in time and space and what happens when we fail to connect the details of that knowledge into a larger picture. “Sadly, we often atomize knowledge32 into pieces that don’t have a home in a larger conceptual framework. When this happens, we surrender meaning to guardians of knowledge and it loses its personal value.”

Wisdom, I conclude, is not contemplation alone,28 not action alone, but contemplation in action. —John Dunne