At its best, schooling can be about how to make a life, which is quite different from how to make a living. — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
The idea of taking what people call the 'entertainment culture' as a focus of study, including historical perspective, is not a bad… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Once you have learned to ask questions - relevant and appropriate and substantial questions - you have learned how to learn and… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Textbooks, it seems to me, are enemies of education, instruments for promoting dogmatism and trivial learning. They may save the teacher some… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Education Research: This is a process whereby serious educators discover knowledge that is well known to everybody, and has been for several… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
I mean to suggest that without a transcendent and honorable purpose, schooling must reach its finish, and the sooner we are done… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
TV serves us most usefully when presenting junk-entertainment; it serves us most ill when it co-opts serious modes of discourse - news,… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
If students get a sound education in the history, social effects and psychological biases of technology, they may grow to be adults… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“Abetted by a form of education that in itself has been emptied of any coherent world-view, Technopoly deprives us of the social,… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“Free human dialogue, wandering wherever the agility of the mind allows, lies at the heart of education. If teachers do not have… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
There is no way to help a learner to be disciplined, active, and thoroughly engaged unless he perceives a problem to be… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Our politics, religion, news, athletics, education and commerce have been transformed into congenial adjuncts of show business, largely without protest or even… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Through the computer, the heralds say, we will make education better, religion better, politics better, our minds better — best of all,… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“Perhaps we should abandon the whole idea of trying to make students intelligent and focus on the idea of making them less… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
...there must be a sequence to learning, that perseverance and a certain measure of perspiration are indispensable, that individual pleasures must frequently… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“Every television program must be a complete package in itself. No previous knowledge is to be required. There must not be even… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“We may take as our guide, here, John Dewey's observation that the content of a lesson is the least important thing about… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“The question is not, Does or doesn't public schooling create a public? The question is, What kind of public does it create?… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“And that is why I would propose that, in our teaching of the humanities, we should emphasize the enduring creations of the… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“What we need to consider about the computer has nothing to do with its efficiency as a teaching tool. We need to… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“Educators may bring upon themselves unnecessary travail by taking a tactless and unjustifiable position about the relation between scientific and religious narratives.… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“There is nothing wrong with entertainment. As some psychiatrist once put it, we all build castles in the air. The problems come… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“Public education does not serve a public. It creates a public. And in creating the right kind of public, the schools contribute… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“There was a time when educators became famous for providing reasons for learning; now they become famous for inventing a method.” — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
School has never really been about individualized learning, but about how to be socialized as a citizen and as a human being,… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
The making of adaptable, curious, open, questioning people has nothing to do with vocational training and everything to do with humanistic and… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“to whom will the technology give greater power and freedom? And whose power and freedom will be reduced by it?” — Neil Postman Copy Share
Cyberspace' is a metaphorical idea which is supposed to be the space where your consciousness is located when you're using computer technology on the… — Neil Postman Copy Share
Textbooks, it seems to me, are enemies of education, instruments for promoting dogmatism and trivial learning. They may save the teacher some trouble, but… — Neil Postman Copy Share
The whole problem with news on television comes down to this: all the words uttered in an hour of news coverage could be printed… — Neil Postman Copy Share
“There being no international copyright laws, “pirated” editions abounded, with no complaint from the public, or much from authors, who were lionized.” — Neil Postman Copy Share
“The television commercial is not at all about the character of products to be consumed. It is about the character of the consumers of… — Neil Postman Copy Share
“Many decisions about the form and content of news programs are made on the basis of information about the viewer, the purpose of which… — Neil Postman Copy Share
“the world we live in is very nearly incomprehensible to most of us. There is almost no fact, whether actual or imagined, that will… — Neil Postman Copy Share
“Huxley grasped, as Orwell did not, that it is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological… — Neil Postman Copy Share
“The written word is assumed to have been reflected upon and revised by its author,” — Neil Postman Copy Share
We do not measure a culture by its output of undisguised trivialities but by what it claims as significant. — Neil Postman Copy Share
“We were keeping our eye on 1984. When the year came and the prophecy didn't, thoughtful Americans sang softly in praise of themselves. The… — Neil Postman Copy Share
“The question is not, Does or doesn't public schooling create a public? The question is, What kind of public does it create? A conglomerate… — Neil Postman Copy Share
