Literacy from the time of the pharaohs forward has never collapsed but only changed. Those who denounce the new electronic media for corrupting literacy really mean to say that these innovations menace the middle-class literacy approved by the American establishment. Robert Pattison On Literacy: The Politics of the Word from Homer to the Age of Rock
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