Quotes by : Neil Postman

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

In tracking what people have to say about schooling, I notice that most of the conversation is about....

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

Educators may bring upon themselves unnecessary travail by taking a tactless and unjustifiable position....

Americans no longer talk to each other, they entertain each other. They do not exchange ideas, they exchange....

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

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

In America, everyone is entitled to an opinion, and it is certainly useful to have a few when a pollster....

Exposition is a mode of thought, a method of learning, and a means of expression. Almost all of the characteristics....

I don't think any of us can do much about the rapid growth of new technology. A new technology helps....