This is very true. I was also feeling this way. People is trying to avoid reading in traditional way. They only want to absorb informations that are simple, easy, and fast. It was like they are getting lazy and lazy over time.

This "mere decoders of information" is so true! Since decoding information is to understand, break down, and interpret sets of communication and infromation in our brain clearly, reading online is trying to jump this process really fast.

I cannot argue a single word in this sentence. Internet and computer is not becoming, it is our part of life.

Very clever additional detailed information. The readers are able to identify David Lebovitz not just a expertize in culinary but actually an expertise in pastry

With this sentence... actually I had to think a little bit. This sentence is saying like: He was going West but in an East kind of way? But after saying the word "retells" it gave me a clear idea that Mr. Lebovitz was playing with his stories in a humorous and back-to-the-point manner.

This particual sentence drags the reader to read Lebovitz article. She is engaging the reader to be excited. I would also want to learn French if I can.

He is using an interesting analogy contrasting with education and politics. The "endless tikering" best describes the useless effort that EDUCATION is doing with society, students, and teachers. Obviously the author is critizising.

"I am a believer" Why would he wrote this instead of I believe? I think he is actually trying to enphasize the speaking method of Martin Luther King: "I have a dream." Or he wants to be in a very specific part of a group segment: believers.

Although he is talking about good things of the system the phrases "very poor" and "at my request" are indirectly that the author is not really considering a good thing.