> Active consumption and creation, in the form of reading and writing, is the biggest gift that society ever bestowed upon us.
> Foster it, don’t squander it for another 15s of stimulation.

The author also writes:
> Children cannot do the simple things – tell analog time, write in cursive, have a vocabulary equal to their age or better.
> Most children that I have conversed with in the past 10+ years have a vocabulary of half their age.
> They don’t have books on their night table and they are awake all night scrolling.

via [tscreativ.substack.com/p/the-wri…](https://tscreativ.substack.com/p/the-written-word-is-dying)