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Children enter school as question marks and leave as periods.

Children enter school as question marks and leave as periods.

Neil Postman
Education, Children, Reading
Neil Postman (2011). “The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School”, p.70, Vintage

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

Neil Postman
Children, Parenting, Childhood
Neil Postman (2011). “Building a Bridge to the 18th Century: How the Past Can Improve Our Future”, p.138, Vintage

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
Time, Children, Views
Neil Postman (2011). “The Disappearance of Childhood”, p.10, Vintage

We had learned how to invent things, and the question of why we invent things receded in importance. The idea that if something could be done it should be done was born in the nineteenth century. And along with it, there developed a profound belief in all the principles through which invention succeeds: objectivity, efficiency, expertise, standardization, measurement, and progress. It also came to be believed that the engine of technological progress worked most efficiently when people are conceived of not as children of God or even as citizens but as consumers-that is to say, as markets.

Neil Postman
Children, Objectivity, Ideas
Neil Postman (2011). “Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology”, p.61, Vintage

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