Children Quotes by Neil Postman

9 Children quotes by Neil Postman

Neil Postman presents nine brief, insightful observations about children, each echoing his media‑savvy critique. The short set gives a clear sense of his thoughts on how youth engage with culture.

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Children enter school as question marks and leave as periods.

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Reading is the scourge of childhood because, in a sense, it creates adulthood.

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“Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.”

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If parents wish to preserve childhood for their own children, they must conceive of parenting as an act of rebellion against culture

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Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see. From a biological point of view it is…

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Childhood is analogous to language learning. It has a biological basis but cannot be realized unless a social environment triggers and nurtures…

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We had learned how to invent things, and the question of why we invent things receded in importance. The idea that if…

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“If a nuclear holocost should occur somewhere in the world, it will not happen because of insufficient information; if children are starving…

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“Parents embraced “Sesame Street” for several reasons, among them that it assuaged their guilt over the fact that they could not or…

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