What does we are what we read mean?
“You are what you read” is derived from “You are what you eat.” Both sayings convey the meaning of “You are what you take in.” One is of your mind, the other is of your body. The postcard is playing with words.
How much of what we read do we retain?
Fortunately, wisdom has come down through the ages, from Aristotle to Pliny the Elder to Sophocles to Confucius, and so on. What’s the percentage of information do we retain? This wisdom can be best summarized as that people remember: 10 percent of what they READ.
Why do we read what we read?
In Why We Read What We Read, Lisa Adams and John Heath take an insightful and often hilarious tour through nearly 200 bestselling books, ferreting out their persistent themes and determining what those say about what we believe and how we relate to one another.
What we see what we read?
A San Francisco Chronicle and Kirkus Best Book of the Year A gorgeously unique, fully illustrated exploration into the phenomenology of reading—how we visualize images from reading works of literature, from one of our very best book jacket designers, himself a passionate reader.
Does it matter what we read?
For reluctant readers and readers who are still developing basic reading skills, it doesn’t matter what they read as long as they read. So if you want to grow as a human being, yes, it does matter what you read. You should read books with ideas new to you. Books with images that extend their meaning into your life.
Who wrote Proust and the Squid The Story and Science of the Reading Brain?
Maryanne Wolf
Proust and the squid/Authors
Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain BY Maryanne Wolf. Harper. Hardcover, 320 pages.
What percentage of training is retained?
The “learning pyramid”, sometimes referred to as the “cone of learning”, developed by the National Training Laboratory, suggests that most students only remember about 10\% of what they read from textbooks, but retain nearly 90\% of what they learn through teaching others.
Who is Edgar cone?
Dale’s Cone of Experience is a model that incorporates several theories related to instructional design and learning processes. During the 1960s, Edgar Dale theorized that learners retain more information by what they “do” as opposed to what is “heard”, “read” or “observed”.