The way in which the photograph records experience is also different from the way of language. Language makes sense only when it… — 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
Television is altering the meaning of 'being informed' by creating a species of information that might properly be called disinformation. Disinformation does… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
The line-by-line, sequential, continuous form of the printed page slowly began to lose its resonance as a metaphor of how knowledge was… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
A book is an attempt to make through permanent and to contribute to the great conversation conducted by authors of the past.… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“The written word is assumed to have been reflected upon and revised by its author,” — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
We do not measure a culture by its output of undisguised trivialities but by what it claims as significant. — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
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