The big problem in the long process of dumbing down the schools is that you can reach a point of no return.… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
And I can see that everything about this God has been purposely designed to poison our experience of life on earth, not… — Pat Condell Copy Share Image
Popular culture, on average, has been growing more cognitively challenging over the past thirty years, not less. Despite everything you hear about… — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
“The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30-second… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I'm generally pessimistic about the dumbing down of America - especially with summer movies. — Elmer Bernstein Copy Share Image
At the core of what I'm doing is a belief in the audience, a belief that populism doesn't mean dumbing down theater,… — Diane Paulus Copy Share Image
True literacy is becoming an arcane art and the nation [United States] is steadily dumbing down. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Getting proper change back at McDonalds: It's not rocket science, but it might as well be. — Rock Cowles Copy Share Image
In Britain, we've tended to replace the kind of architectural culture valued in much of Europe with an in-flight magazine lifestyle -… — David Chipperfield Copy Share Image
“When we crumble under the exorbitant weight of conspicuous commodities and the material pressure in a universe of illusion, life may become… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Everybody is in your business, gossiping and being mean spirited. It's different. Sometimes I'm like, "Do I want to do this?," because… — Tinsel Korey Copy Share Image
No one can know how long this dumbing-down of American religion will persist. But so long as it does, citizens should probably… — Mark Lilla Copy Share Image
Dumbing down takes many forms: art that is good for you, museums that flatter you, universities that increase your self-esteem. Culture, after… — Denis Dutton Copy Share Image
Those of us with a microphone who are blessed with the gift of being in the public eye have a special opportunity… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
Government Education is an oxymoron. It is indoctrination. Lay still, little sheep, or The Wolf will get you. — Rock Cowles Copy Share Image
You go in and meet the head of BBC One and get an assurance about not dumbing down. And then, of course… — John Cleese Copy Share Image
Many people who I respected were disappointed when I started 'Wine Library TV.' They thought I was dumbing down wine, but I… — Gary Vaynerchuk Copy Share Image
“The cosmos stands amazed at just how dumb Planet Dumb is. With an uncanny talent for error, humanity has at every crossroads… — Ranty McRanterson Copy Share Image
I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go. — Sam Neill Copy Share Image
A secular approach is not a dumbing down, it's not reductively identifying Buddhism with one or two particular techniques of meditation, but… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
The ability to convince people of the wackiest notions - and both parties can do it - it's part of the dumbing… — Gary Ackerman Copy Share Image
“The safest way to success is to write according to the capacity of the stupidest member of the audience.” — Natasha Pulley Copy Share Image
Advocates of dumbing down should note the wonderfully perverse fact that 'University Challenge' and 'Mastermind' were watched by millions who could hardly… — Declan Lynch Copy Share Image
True literacy is becoming an arcane art, and the nation is steadily "dumbing down." — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
