Able Quote by Brewster Kahle

“Critical thinking is essential to make sense of our world, especially with advertisers and politicians all telling us loudly that they know best. We…

— Helen Czerski

The chief problem with television is that, for those who watch it consistently, it undermines and eventually destroys the ability to think. This is…

— James Montgomery Boice

Critical thinking relies on content, because you can't navigate masses of information if you have nothing to navigate to.

— Kathy Hirsh-Pasek

There's less critical thinking going on in this country on a Main Street level - forget about the media - than ever before. We've…

— Alec Baldwin

Television is a formidable thinking tool. You are like an analyst to whom society's subconscious would be offered wide open…

— Serge Daney

“Critical thinking is an unavoidable part of growing up. We do not become adults without it. But in the modern world, this stage often…

— Marcus J. Borg

The velocity and knee-jerk response to events happening in real time that television brings us precludes any kind of reflection or contemplation and therefore…

— Bill Viola

Television is a non graded curriculum and excludes no viewer for any reason, at any time. In other words, in doing away wtih the…

— Neil Postman

Television is a new, hard test of our wisdom. If we succeed in mastering the new medium it will enrich us. But it can…

— Rudolf Arnheim

“But it is not time constraints alone that produce such fragmented and discontinuous language. When a television show is in process, it is very…

— Neil Postman

Television is a constant stream of fact, opinions, lies, moral dilemmas, plots: an infinitely complex and sophisticated torrent of information. How could it not…

— A. A. Gill

You have to let the viewers come away with their own conclusions. If you dictate what they should think, you've lost it.

— Maya Lin