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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 its thoughts in oral form. More than any other single invention

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.

Writing, Science, Thinking

Walter J. Ong (2013). “Orality and Literacy”, p.77, Routledge

Learners are doers, not recipients.

Doers, Learners

Print encourages a sense of closure, a sense that what is found in a text has been finalized, has reached a state of completion.

Closure, States, Found

Walter J. Ong (2013). “Orality and Literacy”, p.129, Routledge

There is no way to write unless you read, and read a lot.

Writing, Way

Walter J. Ong, Thomas J. Farrell, Paul A. Soukup (2002). “An Ong reader: challenges for further inquiry”, Hampton Pr

For the way in which the word is experienced is always momentous

Way

Walter J. Ong, John Hartley (2012). “Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word”, p.72, Routledge

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