In the first half of the twentieth century, T. S. Eliot wrote in “Choruses from ‘The Rock,’” “Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?11 Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?” In the first quarter of our century we daily conflate information with knowledge and knowledge with wisdom—with the resulting diminution of all three. Exemplified by the interactive dynamic that governs our deep-reading processes, only the allocation of time to our inferential and critical analytical functions can transform the information we read into knowledge that can be consolidated in our memory.
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