Reading not only enlarges and challenges the mind; it also engages and exercises the brain. Today's youth who sits mesmerized by a… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
Again and again parents describe...the trancelike nature of their children's television watching. The child's facial expression is transformed. The jaw is relaxed… — Marie Winn Copy Share Image
Television watching should more properly be called television staring; it engages eye and ear simultaneously in a relentless and persistent way and… — Witold Rybczynski Copy Share Image
The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now seem comically… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
[An audience conditioned by a lifetime of television-watching is so corrupted that] their standards have been systematically lowered over the years. These… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Television watching does reduce reading and often encroaches on homework. Much of it is admittedly the intellectual equivalent of junk food. But… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
The six and one-fourth hours' television watching (the American average per day) which non-reading children do is what is called alpha-level learning.… — Carol Bly Copy Share Image
Watching television requires no skills and develops no skills. That is why there is no such thing as remedial television-watching. — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
