What did Neil Postman mean by: We can make the trains run on time but if they are not going where we want them to go, why bother? Neil Postman Media theorist and cultural critic · USA Copy
The price of maintaining membership in the establishment is unquestioning acceptance of authority. Author, December 28, 2023January 1, 2025, Neil Postman, Acceptance, Authority, Membership, 0 Neil Postman Media theorist and cultural critic · USA
Children enter school as question marks and leave as periods. Author, December 28, 2023January 1, 2025, Neil Postman, Curiosity, Education, Transformation, 0 Neil Postman Media theorist and cultural critic · USA
The effects of technology are always unpredictable. But they are not always inevitable. Author, December 28, 2023January 1, 2025, Neil Postman, Inevitability, Technology, Unpredictability, 0 Neil Postman Media theorist and cultural critic · USA
Printing links the present with forever. It carries personal identity into realms unknown. Author, December 28, 2023January 1, 2025, Neil Postman, Connection, Identity, Legacy, 0 Neil Postman Media theorist and cultural critic · USA
Public schooling does not serve a public; it creates a pubic. Author, December 28, 2023January 1, 2025, Neil Postman, Education, Identity, Society, 0 Neil Postman Media theorist and cultural critic · USA
When media make war against each other, it is a case of world-views in collision. Author, December 28, 2023January 1, 2025, Neil Postman, Media, War, 0 Neil Postman Media theorist and cultural critic · USA
+ The written word endures, the spoken word disappears Author, August 30, 2023January 2, 2025, Neil Postman, Communication, Preservation, Time, 0 Neil Postman Media theorist and cultural critic · USA
A definition is the start of an argument, not the end of one. Author, December 28, 2023January 1, 2025, Neil Postman, Argument, Debate, Definition, 0 Neil Postman Media theorist and cultural critic · USA
Art is the highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of this life. Read explanation Friedrich Nietzsche Philosopher · Germany
There is no Art made without power, and there is no reason for Art to be made except for power. Read explanation Gary D. Schmidt Author
Art has nothing to do with taste. Art is not there to be tasted Max Ernst Surrealist artist · Germany