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Neil Postman
Contents
Quotes
Teaching as a Subversive Activity (1969)
Language Education in a Knowledge Context (1980)
The Disappearance of Childhood (1982)
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (1985)
Technopoly: the Surrender of Culture to Technology (1992)
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Content: Have you read Hegel or Nietzsche? Their books are in the library, you have access to them, why have you not familiarized yourself with this literature? ( Even if you have, I think you will agree that most people have not. Why?) "Neil Postman Ponders High Tech" at Online Newshour : Online Forum (17 January 1996)
Teaching as a Subversive Activity (1969)
What passes for a curriculum in today's schools is little else than a strategy of distraction... It is largely defined to keep students from knowing themselves and their environment in any realistic sense. We have framed... some questions which in our judgement, are responsive to the actual and immediate as against the fancied and future needs of learners in the world as it is (not as it was ). The word " educate " is closely related to the word " educe ." Where do symbols come from? Why do symbols change?