Without writing, the literate mind would not and could not think as it does, not only when engaged in writing but normally even when it is composing its thoughts in oral form. More than any other single invention writing has transformed human consciousness.


Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word (1982)

Walter J. Ong Quotes

Without writing, the literate mind would not and could not think as it does, not only when engaged in writing but normally even when it is composing...

Without writing, the literate mind would not and could not think as it does, not only when engaged in writing but normally even when it is composing...

Without writing, the literate mind would not and could not think as it does, not only when engaged in writing but normally even when it is composing...

Without writing, the literate mind would not and could not think as it does, not only when engaged in writing but normally even when it is composing...