Socrates (if we believe how Plato represented him) believed that writing would destroy memory. But "memory" also meant something different then from now, such that Socrates/Plato thought a certain facility of or with memory was necessary for civic participation and for even being fully human.
I'm a little unclear about your second question. Do you mean something like this?: If I copy a poem in writing and then analyze it, will my analysis be different than if I only read it? What about writing it down would change your sense of the poem?
everytime I think of something that makes me smile or ponder I try and write it down because those thoughts are all passing. The notebook is labeled "stuff I don't want to forget". So hopefully writing it down does indeed help you remember something. But that isn't to say when you read it three months later that those inadequate words you wrote down will not be a carbon copy of your original brilliant thought.
I think that memory is enhanced by writing something down. It may take longer to have a perfect memorization of it (such as trying to memorize a poem or somesuch) but in the end it will probably be more true to the original that learning it orally because you have something to reference when you can't recall.
Recording something physically is both good and bad. You can go through and analyze it more carefully, but you also limit yourself to what you have. If, per say, you write down an event, you will focus on what you wrote down after that instead of what you did not write down. Things may be forgotten or changed.
Bernstein was saying that we now use writing as a way to relieve our memories. By writing it down our brain is no longer responsible for it. Studies have proven that the more diversity you add into your studying the more successfully you will learn it. For example, when studying for chemistry, rather than just reading your notes, it benefits you greatly to re-copy them. Even reading something out loud connects it to different sensorial memories and helps you learn. Basically, writing helps your memory.
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Socrates (if we believe how Plato represented him) believed that writing would destroy memory. But "memory" also meant something different then from now, such that Socrates/Plato thought a certain facility of or with memory was necessary for civic participation and for even being fully human.
I'm a little unclear about your second question. Do you mean something like this?: If I copy a poem in writing and then analyze it, will my analysis be different than if I only read it? What about writing it down would change your sense of the poem?
everytime I think of something that makes me smile or ponder I try and write it down because those thoughts are all passing. The notebook is labeled "stuff I don't want to forget". So hopefully writing it down does indeed help you remember something. But that isn't to say when you read it three months later that those inadequate words you wrote down will not be a carbon copy of your original brilliant thought.
I think that memory is enhanced by writing something down. It may take longer to have a perfect memorization of it (such as trying to memorize a poem or somesuch) but in the end it will probably be more true to the original that learning it orally because you have something to reference when you can't recall.
Recording something physically is both good and bad. You can go through and analyze it more carefully, but you also limit yourself to what you have. If, per say, you write down an event, you will focus on what you wrote down after that instead of what you did not write down. Things may be forgotten or changed.
Bernstein was saying that we now use writing as a way to relieve our memories. By writing it down our brain is no longer responsible for it. Studies have proven that the more diversity you add into your studying the more successfully you will learn it. For example, when studying for chemistry, rather than just reading your notes, it benefits you greatly to re-copy them. Even reading something out loud connects it to different sensorial memories and helps you learn. Basically, writing helps your memory.
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