Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Walter J. Ong

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American historian Walter J. Ong.

Last updated on November 23, 2024.

Walter Jackson Ong was an American Jesuit priest, professor of English literature, cultural and religious historian, and philosopher. His major interest was in exploring how the transition from orality to literacy influenced culture and changed human consciousness. In 1978 he served as elected president of the Modern Language Association.

American - Historian | November 30, 1912 - August 12, 2003

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There is no way to write unless you read, and read a lot.

Walter J. Ong

Print encourages a sense of closure, a sense that what is found in a text has been finalized, has reached a state of completion.

Walter J. Ong

For the way in which the word is experienced is always momentous

Walter J. Ong

Without writing, the literate mind would not and could not think as it does, not only when engaged in writing but normally even when it is composing its thoughts in oral form. More than any other single invention writing has transformed human consciousness.

Walter J. Ong

Learners are doers, not recipients.

Walter J. Ong

Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Walter J. Ong

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