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A is for Ox: A Short History of the Alphabet

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The written word, so indispensable to modern society, is easy to take for granted, but writing was a late development in the history of human language. On the other hand, ‘when a teacher asks a child to sit in front of a computer in grade school, he has invoked the authority of a battery of screens—TV, movie and video.

Contending that the values clarification programs inspired by his archvillain, psychotherapist Carl Rogers, actually inculcate values confusion, Sowell argues that the universal demand for relevance and sensitivity to the whole student has led public schools to abdicate their responsibility to such educational ideals as experience and maturity. People from Canaan — modern-day Syria, Lebanon, Israel, and Jordan — often travelled to wealthy, neighbouring Egypt to seek their fortunes. Sanders goes on to say that, ‘The idea of a critical, self-directed human being we take for granted as the working foundation of our humanness develops only in the crucible of reading and writing. About 6,000 years ago in ancient Sumeria, farmers, traders and ordinary people living in cities along the banks of the Tigris and Euphrates, began potentially the greatest revolution in human history. A is for Ox: The Collapse of Literacy and the Rise of Violence in an Electronic Age by Barry Sanders was published in 1994.This amount includes seller specified domestic postage charges as well as applicable international postage, dispatch, and other fees.

The letter A is often sounded ‘ah’ and a child, when asked to spell the word ‘ox’, for instance, more often than not spells it ‘ax’. They continued until they had 27 letters — enough to represent all the consonants in their language. A very clean, bright and crisp hardback copy with no previous ownership names, housed in the publisher's slip case, which is also in very nice condition. With a small number of symbols that can represent an unlimited number of words, alphabetic writing caught on around the world, and nearly all modern alphabets, from Arabic to Devanagari, Thai to Cyrillic, are descended from proto-Sinaitic.From those ancient beginnings came our own alphabet, whose formation would take it on a journey that took in Egyptian hieroglyphs, Semitic slaves, the Greeks and on to the Etruscans and Romans. The author goes so far as to blame rape, murder and the overall collapse of humanity on the decline of literacy, a decline which he has of yet not been able to prove. Web icon An illustration of a computer application window Wayback Machine Texts icon An illustration of an open book.

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