Quotes by : Neil Postman

It is naive to suppose that something that has been expressed in one form can be expressed in another....

Typography fostered the modern idea of individuality, but it destroyed the medieval sense of community....

Every television program must be a complete package in itself. No previous knowledge is to be required.....

The television commercial has mounted the most serious assault on capitalist ideology since the publication....

...people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to....

Poverty is a great educator. Having no boundaries and refusing to be ignored, it mostly teaches hopelessness.....

Thomas Jefferson. . . knew what schools were for--to ensure that citizens would know when and how to....

The question is not, Does or doesn't public schooling create a public? The question is, What kind of....

There is no way to help a learner to be disciplined, active, and thoroughly engaged unless he perceives....

The clearest way to see through a culture is to attend to its tools for conversation.