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Neil Postman Quotes - Page 2

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 (2009). “Teaching As a Subversive Activity: A No-Holds-Barred Assault on Outdated Teaching Methods-with Dramatic and Practical Proposals on How Education Can Be Made Relevant to Today's World”, p.245, Delta

There is no way to help a learner to be disciplined, active, and thoroughly engaged unless he perceives a problem to be a problem or whatever is to-be-learned as worth learning, and unless he plays an active role in determining the process of solution.

Neil Postman (2009). “Teaching As a Subversive Activity: A No-Holds-Barred Assault on Outdated Teaching Methods-with Dramatic and Practical Proposals on How Education Can Be Made Relevant to Today's World”, p.71, Delta

The written word endures, the spoken word disappears

Neil Postman (2005). “Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business”, p.21, Penguin

We can make the trains run on time but if they are not going where we want them to go, why bother?

Neil Postman (2011). “The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School”, p.61, Vintage

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.

"Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business". Book by Neil Postman, 1985.

In Russia, writers with serious grievances are arrested, while in America they are merely featured on television talk shows, where all that is arrested is their development.

Neil Postman (2011). “Conscientious Objections: Stirring Up Trouble About Language, Technology and Education”, p.11, Vintage

Certainty abolishes hope, and robs us of renewal.

Neil Postman (2011). “Building a Bridge to the 18th Century: How the Past Can Improve Our Future”, p.124, Vintage

We do not measure a culture by its output of undisguised trivialities but by what it claims as significant.

Neil Postman (2005). “Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business”, p.16, Penguin

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 (2005). “Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business”, p.126, Penguin