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Neil Postman Quotes

Printing links the present with forever. It carries personal identity into realms unknown Picture Quote #1

Reading is the scourge of childhood because, in a sense, it creates adulthood Picture Quote #1

The effects of technology are always unpredictable. But they are not always inevitable Picture Quote #1

Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see Picture Quote #1

At its best, schooling can be about how to make a life, which is quite different from how to make a living Picture Quote #1

Everything in our background has prepared us to know and resist a prison when the gates begin to close around us... But what if there are no cries of anguish to be heard? Who is prepared to take arms against a sea of amusements? To whom do we complain, and when, and in what tone of voice, when serious discourse dissolves into giggles? What is the antidote to a culture’s being drained by laughter? Picture Quote #1

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Our politics, religion, news, athletics, education and commerce have been transformed into congenial adjuncts of show business, largely without protest or even much popular notice. The result is that we are a people on the verge of amusing ourselves to death Picture Quote #1

Technology always has unforeseen consequences, and it is not always clear, at the beginning, who or what will win, and who or what will lose Picture Quote #1

People in distress will sometimes prefer a problem that is familiar to a solution that is not Picture Quote #1

Nothing could be more misleading than the idea that computer technology introduced the age of information. The printing press began that age, and we have not been free of it since Picture Quote #1

The reader must come armed, in a serious state of intellectual readiness. This is not easy because he comes to the text alone. In reading, one’s responses are isolated, one’sintellect thrown back on its own resourses. To be confronted by the cold abstractions of printed sentences is to look upon language bare, without the assistance of either beauty or community. Thus, reading is by its nature a serious business. It is also, of course, an essentially rational activity Picture Quote #1

Remember: in order for a perception to change one must be frustrated in one’s actions or change one’s purpose Picture Quote #1

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Americans no longer talk to each other, they entertain each other. They do not exchange ideas, they exchange images. They do not argue with propositions; they argue with good looks, celebrities and comercials Picture Quote #1

If politics is like show business, then the idea is not to pursue excellence, clarity or honesty but to appear as if you are, which is another matter altogether Picture Quote #1

Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see. From a biological point of view it is inconceivable that any culture will forget that it needs to reproduce itself. But it is quite possible for a culture to exist without a social idea of children. Unlike infancy, childhood is a social artifact, not a biological category Picture Quote #1

The spectacle we find in true religions has as its purpose enchantment, not entertainment. The distinction is critical. By endowing things with magic, enchantment is a means through which we may gain access to sacredness. Entertainment is the means through which we distance ourselves from it Picture Quote #1

A metaphor is not an ornament. It is an organ of perception. Through metaphors, we see the world as one thing or another Picture Quote #1

School has never really been about individualized learning, but about how to be socialized as a citizen and as a human being, so that we, we have important rules in school, always emphasizing the fact that one is part of a group Picture Quote #1

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Everything we know has its origins in questions. Questions, we might say, are the principal intellectual instruments available to human beings Picture Quote #1

The whole problem with news on television comes down to this: all the words uttered in an hour of news coverage could be printed on a page of a newspaper. And the world cannot be understood in one page Picture Quote #1

I don’t think any of us can do much about the rapid growth of new technology. A new technology helps to fuel the economy, and any discussion of slowing its growth has to take account of economic consequences. However, it is possible for us to learn how to control our own uses of technology Picture Quote #1

The point is that profound but contradictory ideas may exist side by side, if they are constructed from different materials and methods. and have different purposes. Each tells us something important about where we stand in the universe, and it is foolish to insist that they must despise each other Picture Quote #1

You cannot avoid making judgements but you can become more conscious of the way in which you make them. This is critically important because once we judge someone or something we tend to stop thinking about them or it Picture Quote #1

Computers are merely ingenious devices to fulfill unimportant functions. The computer revolution is an explosion of nonsense Picture Quote #1

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Embedded in every technology there is a powerful idea, sometimes two or three powerful ideas. Like language itself, a technology predisposes us to favor and value certain perspectives and accomplishments and to subordinate others. Every technology has a philosophy, which is given expression in how the technology makes people use their minds, in how it codifies the world, in which of our senses it amplifies, in which of our emotional and intellectual tendencies it disregards Picture Quote #1

If parents wish to preserve childhood for their own children, they must conceive of parenting as an act of rebellion against culture Picture Quote #1

As a culture moves from orality to writing to printing to televising, its ideas of truth move with it Picture Quote #1

It is inescapable that every culture must negotiate with technology, whether it does so intelligently or not. A bargain is struck in which technology giveth and technology taketh away Picture Quote #1

It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions Picture Quote #1

What the advertiser needs to know is not what is right about the product but what is wrong about the buyer Picture Quote #1

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Printing links the present with forever. It carries personal identity into realms unknown (Neil Postman Quotes) Reading is the scourge of childhood because, in a sense, it creates adulthood (Neil Postman Quotes) The effects of technology are always unpredictable. But they are not always inevitable (Neil Postman Quotes) Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see (Neil Postman Quotes) At its best, schooling can be about how to make a life, which is quite different from how to make a living (Neil Postman Quotes) Everything in our background has prepared us to know and resist a prison when the gates begin to close around us... But what if there are no cries of anguish to be heard? Who is prepared to take arms against a sea of amusements? To whom do we complain, and when, and in what tone of voice, when serious discourse dissolves into giggles? What is the antidote to a culture’s being drained by laughter? (Neil Postman Quotes) Our politics, religion, news, athletics, education and commerce have been transformed into congenial adjuncts of show business, largely without protest or even much popular notice. The result is that we are a people on the verge of amusing ourselves to death (Neil Postman Quotes) Technology always has unforeseen consequences, and it is not always clear, at the beginning, who or what will win, and who or what will lose (Neil Postman Quotes) People in distress will sometimes prefer a problem that is familiar to a solution that is not (Neil Postman Quotes) Nothing could be more misleading than the idea that computer technology introduced the age of information. The printing press began that age, and we have not been free of it since (Neil Postman Quotes) The reader must come armed, in a serious state of intellectual readiness. This is not easy because he comes to the text alone. In reading, one’s responses are isolated, one’sintellect thrown back on its own resourses. To be confronted by the cold abstractions of printed sentences is to look upon language bare, without the assistance of either beauty or community. Thus, reading is by its nature a serious business. It is also, of course, an essentially rational activity (Neil Postman Quotes) Remember: in order for a perception to change one must be frustrated in one’s actions or change one’s purpose (Neil Postman Quotes) Americans no longer talk to each other, they entertain each other. They do not exchange ideas, they exchange images. They do not argue with propositions; they argue with good looks, celebrities and comercials (Neil Postman Quotes) If politics is like show business, then the idea is not to pursue excellence, clarity or honesty but to appear as if you are, which is another matter altogether (Neil Postman Quotes) Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see. From a biological point of view it is inconceivable that any culture will forget that it needs to reproduce itself. But it is quite possible for a culture to exist without a social idea of children. Unlike infancy, childhood is a social artifact, not a biological category (Neil Postman Quotes) The spectacle we find in true religions has as its purpose enchantment, not entertainment. The distinction is critical. By endowing things with magic, enchantment is a means through which we may gain access to sacredness. Entertainment is the means through which we distance ourselves from it (Neil Postman Quotes) A metaphor is not an ornament. It is an organ of perception. Through metaphors, we see the world as one thing or another (Neil Postman Quotes) School has never really been about individualized learning, but about how to be socialized as a citizen and as a human being, so that we, we have important rules in school, always emphasizing the fact that one is part of a group (Neil Postman Quotes) Everything we know has its origins in questions. Questions, we might say, are the principal intellectual instruments available to human beings (Neil Postman Quotes) The whole problem with news on television comes down to this: all the words uttered in an hour of news coverage could be printed on a page of a newspaper. And the world cannot be understood in one page (Neil Postman Quotes) I don’t think any of us can do much about the rapid growth of new technology. A new technology helps to fuel the economy, and any discussion of slowing its growth has to take account of economic consequences. However, it is possible for us to learn how to control our own uses of technology (Neil Postman Quotes) The point is that profound but contradictory ideas may exist side by side, if they are constructed from different materials and methods. and have different purposes. Each tells us something important about where we stand in the universe, and it is foolish to insist that they must despise each other (Neil Postman Quotes) You cannot avoid making judgements but you can become more conscious of the way in which you make them. This is critically important because once we judge someone or something we tend to stop thinking about them or it (Neil Postman Quotes) Computers are merely ingenious devices to fulfill unimportant functions. The computer revolution is an explosion of nonsense (Neil Postman Quotes) Embedded in every technology there is a powerful idea, sometimes two or three powerful ideas. Like language itself, a technology predisposes us to favor and value certain perspectives and accomplishments and to subordinate others. Every technology has a philosophy, which is given expression in how the technology makes people use their minds, in how it codifies the world, in which of our senses it amplifies, in which of our emotional and intellectual tendencies it disregards (Neil Postman Quotes) If parents wish to preserve childhood for their own children, they must conceive of parenting as an act of rebellion against culture (Neil Postman Quotes) As a culture moves from orality to writing to printing to televising, its ideas of truth move with it (Neil Postman Quotes) It is inescapable that every culture must negotiate with technology, whether it does so intelligently or not. A bargain is struck in which technology giveth and technology taketh away (Neil Postman Quotes) It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions (Neil Postman Quotes) What the advertiser needs to know is not what is right about the product but what is wrong about the buyer (Neil Postman Quotes)

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