{"id":578,"date":"2010-09-19T17:47:25","date_gmt":"2010-09-19T21:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=578"},"modified":"2010-09-19T18:08:30","modified_gmt":"2010-09-19T22:08:30","slug":"reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=578","title":{"rendered":"Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"

Liked this back page essay. I had my students read Wolf’s book<\/a> with some success (I guess I got lost, too, in the dense chapters that focus on the brain).
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\nthis quote, though, was money:
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\n\u201cThere is a difference,\u201d she said, \u201cbetween immediate recall of facts and an ability to recall a gestalt of knowledge. We can\u2019t retrieve the specifics, but to adapt a phrase of William James\u2019s, there is a wraith of memory. The information you get from a book is stored in networks. We have an extraordinary capacity for storage, and much more is there than you realize. It is in some way working on you even though you aren\u2019t thinking about it.\u201d<\/strong>
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\nDid this mean that it hadn\u2019t been a waste of time to read all those books, even if I seemingly couldn\u2019t remember what was in them?
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\n\u201cIt\u2019s there,\u201d Wolf said. \u201cYou are the sum of it all.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Liked this back page essay. I had my students read Wolf’s book with some success (I guess I got lost, too, in the dense chapters that focus on the brain). this quote, though, was money: \u201cThere is a difference,\u201d she said, \u201cbetween immediate recall of facts and an ability to recall a gestalt of knowledge. … Continue reading Reading<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s8rNFZ-reading","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=578"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":582,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions\/582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}