By Marige O'Brien, Copyright E2006
Since the advent of the television in the late 1940's leading educational and technological experts have quietly agreed that writing, the major form of communication until that point, was in decline. In fact, they declared it would be obsolete by the year 2000.
In response to this, educators began to adapt basic cirriculum guidelines to focus more on mathematics and science. But they all under estimated the POWER OF THE WRITTEN WORD!
Like all great survivors, The Written Word has the key ability to adapt to an ever-changing environment, to grow with those changes, and to not only continue to prove itself useful, but positively indispensible.
As evidence, consider the internet: one of modern man's greatest technological and communication triumphs, in what has been dubbed "The Age of Communication." Yet, in an ironical twist so stupendous as to be nearly absurd, this "greatest feat" relies PRIMARILY ON the written word in order to deliver its actual communications.
Despite all the technology required to develop it, at least 50-75% of the visible portion of the internet is written. And to make this punch even more potent, major search engines determine a website's VALUE based on THIS WRITTEN content!
But where does this leave "little Johnny" who dutifully studied his maths and science, while the written portion of his education was sacrificed and can now hardly read (never mind write), an error-free and grammatically correct sentence? It leaves him able to create a rocket or a bomb or a dynamic compression-- but not able to explain it to anyone out of earshot. It also leaves him at the mercy of some writer who has, of all things!, a mere Liberal Arts Degree.
And, this, you see, is how "The Written Word Strikes Back."--mo
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