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• Children enter school as question marks and leave as periods.
• Embedded in every technology there is a powerful idea, sometimes two or three powerful ideas. Like language itself, a technology predisposes us…
• People in distress will sometimes prefer a problem that is familiar to a solution that is not.
• As a culture moves from orality to writing to printing to televising, its ideas of truth move with it.
• A definition is the start of an argument, not the end of one.
• The effects of technology are always unpredictable. But they are not always inevitable.
• Printing links the present with forever. It carries personal identity into realms unknown.
• If parents wish to preserve childhood for their own children, they must conceive of parenting as an act of rebellion against culture
• The spectacle we find in true religions has as its purpose enchantment, not entertainment. The distinction is critical. By endowing things with…
• My argument is limited to saying that a major new medium changes the structure of discourse; it does so by encouraging certain…
• When media make war against each other, it is a case of world- views in collision.
• I believe I am not mistaken in saying that Christianity is a demanding and serious religion. When it is delivered as easy…

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