“What ideas are convenient to express inevitably becomes the important content of a culture.” — Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death
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“We do not measure a culture by its output of undisguised trivialities but by what it claims as significant.” — Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death
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“Stupidity is a form of behavior. It is not something we have; it is something we do.” — Neil Postman, The Educationist as Painkiller
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“Everyone practices stupidity, including those who write about it; none of us is ever free of it, and we are most seriously endangered when we think we are safe.” — Neil Postman, The Educationist as Painkiller
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“One way of looking at the history of the human group is that it has been a continuing struggle against the veneration of ‘crap.’” — Neil Postman, Teaching As a Subversive Activity
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“Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.” — Neil Postman, The End of Education
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“At its best, schooling can be about how to make a life, which is quite different from how to make a living.” — Neil Postman, The End of Education
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“Ignorance is always correctable. But what shall we do if we take ignorance to be knowledge?” — Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death
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