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From Quotes by Neil Postman
- As a culture moves from orality to writing to printing to televising, its ideas of truth move with it.
- The spectacle we find in true religions has as its purpose enchantment, not entertainment. The distinction is critical. By endowing things with magic, enchantment is…
- Information is now a commodity that can be bought and sold, or used as a form of entertainment, or worn like a garment to enhance…
- Voting, we might even say, is the next to last refuge of the politically impotent. The last refuge is, of course, giving your opinion to…
- It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.
- There is no escaping from ourselves. The human dilemma is as it has always been, and we solve nothing fundamental by cloaking ourselves in technological…
- If we may say that the Age of Andrew Jackson took political life out of the hands of aristocrats and turned it over to the…
- The point is that profound but contradictory ideas may exist side by side, if they are constructed from different materials and methods. and have different…
- At its best, schooling can be about how to make a life, which is quite different from how to make a living.
- The scientific method," Thomas Henry Huxley once wrote, "is nothing but the normal working of the human mind." That is to say, when the mind…
- Television is altering the meaning of 'being informed' by creating a species of information that might properly be called disinformation. Disinformation does not mean false…
- Television screens saturated with commercials promote the utopian and childish idea that all problems have fast, simple, and technological solutions. You must banish from your…
- Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see. From a biological point of view it is inconceivable that any…
- Once you have learned to ask questions - relevant and appropriate and substantial questions - you have learned how to learn and no one can…
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