A Very Short Reading Group discussion

"This could so easily have been a rather dry book, like the same series' book on Linguistics, but it covers quite a bit of ground with admirable cogency and without descending to academic nit picking or classification for its own sake. It is gratifyingly human in it's approach to the subject, well appreciating that all writing has a human context."

Sounds hopeful - the Linguistics VSI was a bit of a struggle.

""You have invented an elixir not of memory, but of reminding; and you offer your pupils the appearance of wisdom, not true wisdom, for they will read many things without instruction and will therefore seem to know many things, when they are for the most part ignorant."

In a 21st-century world saturated with written information and surrounded by information technologies of astonishing speed, convenience, and power, these words of Socrates recorded by his disciple Plato have a distinctly contemporary ring."

A very interesting reflection giving the current state of things...