Television is a non graded curriculum and excludes no viewer for any reason, at any time. In other words, in doing away… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“How delighted would be all the kings, czars and führers of the past (and commissars of the present) to know that censorship… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
The past is strapped to our backs. We do not have to see it; we can always feel it. People gather bundles… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Because he did not have time to read every new book in his field, the great Polish anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski used a… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
We can make the trains run on time but if they are not going where we want them to go, why bother? — 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
“Parents embraced “Sesame Street” for several reasons, among them that it assuaged their guilt over the fact that they could not or… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“But it is not time constraints alone that produce such fragmented and discontinuous language. When a television show is in process, it… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.” — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“new technologies compete with old ones—for time, for attention, for money, for prestige, but mostly for dominance of their world-view.” — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see. From a biological point of view it is… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“a peek-a-boo world, where now this event, now that, pops into view for a moment, then vanishes again. It is an improbable… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“There was a time when educators became famous for providing reasons for learning; now they become famous for inventing a method.” — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“Technocracy gave us the idea of progress, and of necessity loosened our bonds with tradition—whether political or spiritual. Technocracy filled the air… — 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
“How people think about time and space, and about things and processes, will be greatly influenced by the grammatical features of their… — 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
