Quotes by : Neil Postman

Marx understood well that the press was not merely a machine but a structure for discourse, which both....

It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological....

..all subjects are forms of discourse and that, therefore, almost all education is a form of language....

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

What’s wrong with turning back the clock if the clock is wrong? We need not be slaves to our technologies....

Prior to the age of telegraphy, the information-action ratio was sufficiently close so that most people....

I should go so far as to say that embedded in the surrealistic frame of a television news show is a theory....

The opposite of a correct statement is an incorrect statement. The opposite of a profound truth is another....

For no medium is excessively dangerous if its users understand what its dangers are. It is not important....

We may say then that the contribution of the telegraph to public discourse was to dignify irrelevance....