“Many decisions about the form and content of news programs are made on the basis of information about the viewer, the purpose… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“Marx understood well that the press was not merely a machine but a structure for discourse, which both rules out and insists… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
It is not entirely true that a TV producer or reporter has complete control over the contents of programs. The interests and… — 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
“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
“In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, print put forward a definition of intelligence that gave priority to the objective, rational use of… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
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
My argument is limited to saying that a major new medium changes the structure of discourse; it does so by encouraging certain… — 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
