Flourishing

I’ve posted before on emerging trends in reading. Scot McKnight at Jesus Creed links to a New York Times dealing with the same topic. As I’ve noted before, Americans aren’t reading less. If anything, we’re reading more. Only, we’re not reading books. The National Endowment for the Arts reports that declines in readership mirror declining standardized test scores. Not that this matters, since universities are beginning to make such tests optional. See for example Wake Forest University. I wish they had done this about fifteen years ago!

Precisely what this portends, I know not. It’s tempting to think that we will become a nation of semi-literate technicians. People who have skills, but no particular creativity or insight. I’ll spare you my lament. You can read it here.

HT: Scot McKnight