The Abuse of Literacy
Reading and writing should have taught the people more than name-calling and how to manipulate opinion.
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Question More
NL Clay urges us not to put too much faith in the judgment of experts, as it is bad for us and bad for the experts.
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Order and Method
Taking the trouble to express ourselves more clearly helps us to think more clearly too.
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Straightforward English
NL Clay warns that freedom and democracy will have little meaning unless the public can talk back to their governors.
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Elbert Green Hubbard tells us about Richard Cobden’s early life, and how it shaped his values; Sydney Smith gives us his definition of marriage; mild-mannered clergyman George Herbert get his hands (and much else besides) dirty in helping labourer dumped in the road by his overloaded horse; and a Victorian commuter arrives home carrying more than his briefcase.