Neil Postman Quotes about Reading

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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

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

Reading, Community, Intellectual