Reading and Writing

What happens when students watch movie adaptations of literary works? “Increasingly in contemporary [...]  schooling, great store is place...

"The fact is, writing is one heck of an informational medium — the best ever invented. Neurological studies show that, as we learn to r...

"We know the top songs on the radio and the movies in theaters. Why don’t we know what books are the latest on the shelves? ... Imagine...

"TV serials are penned by those who have very little experience about life and society. Thus it has become a social danger... Most of t...

"I have a sense of people thinking it (literature) is less important," he told Reuters on Friday in a wide-ranging interview at Wa...

"‘When we “get lost” in a good book, we’re doing more than simply following a story. Imagining what’s happening is as good at activatin...

"Children are completely entrapped by these mediums [TV]. They think and speak in the language propagated by them. It is because media ...

"There can be no doubt that books are losing ground to other pastimes, especially electronic ones. Educators see this as a problem beca...