Classical education Quote by Dorothy L. Sayers

“...isn't it possible that advertising as a whole is a fantastic fraud, presenting an image of America taken seriously by no one, least of…

— David Riesman

“Universal literacy was supposed to educate the common man to control his environment. Once he could read and write he would have a mind…

— Edward L. Bernays

“Yet the press was still the last resource of the educated poor who could not be artists and would not be tutors. Any man…

— Henry Adams

“I count it a mistake of our mistaken democracy, that every man who can read print is allowed to believe that he can read…

— D.H. Lawrence

“Literacy is one of the greatest gifts a person could receive.”

— Jen Selinsky

Americans born since World War II have grown up in a media-saturated environment. From childhood, we have developed a sort of advertising literacy, which…

— Virginia Postrel

“I hope that as a totally literate human being that you don't even know what "illiteracy" is because it simply doesn't exist in your…

— Peter Davis

“soon as a culture has reached a certain level, probably measured largely by its literacy, cryptography appears spontaneously—as”

— David Kahn

“In short, the age of the pulp magazine was the last in which youngsters, to get their primitive material, were forced to be literate.…

— Isaac Asimov

“The objection to propaganda is not only its appeal to unreason, but still more the unfair advantage which it gives to the rich and…

— Bertrand Russell

True literacy is becoming an arcane art, and the nation is steadily "dumbing down."

— Isaac Asimov

“Indeed, there is evidence that people are more likely to be influenced by empty persuasive messages, such as commercials, when they are tired and…

— Daniel Kahneman