Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkNeil Postman Quote on Showmanship in Professions
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"Our priests and presidents, our surgeons and lawyers, our educators and newscasters need worry less about satisfying the demands of their discipline than the demands of good showmanship."
Neil Postman
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkNeil Postman: Technology and Education
"If students get a sound education in the history, social effects and psychological biases of technology, they may grow to be adults who use technology rather than be used by it."
Neil Postman
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkEducated Mind Leads to Skepticism – Neil Postman
"An educated mind is practiced in the uses of reason, which inevitably leads to a skeptical outlook."
Neil Postman
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkPrice of Membership – Neil Postman Quote
"The price of maintaining membership in the establishment is unquestioning acceptance of authority."
Neil Postman
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkNeil Postman on the Truth of Television – Revealing Media Critique!
"Television is altering the meaning of 'being informed' by creating a species of information that might properly be called disinformation... Disinformation does not mean false information. It means misleading information - misplaced, irrelevant, fragmented or superficial information - information that creates the illusion of knowing something, but which in fact leads one away from knowing."
Neil Postman
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkChildren as Question Marks and Periods – Neil Postman
"Children enter school as question marks and leave as periods."
Neil Postman
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkNaivety and Fear in Modern Society – Neil Postman
"We are more naive than those of the Middle Ages, and more frightened, for we can be made to believe almost anything."
Neil Postman
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkWatching Television Requires No Skills – Neil Postman
"Watching television requires no skills and develops no skills. That is why there is no such thing as remedial television-watching."
Neil Postman
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkNeil Postman: Entertainment and Lack of Information in America
". . . Americans are the best entertained and quite likely the least well-informed people in the Western world."
Neil Postman
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkLearning by Asking Questions – Neil Postman
"Once you have learned to ask questions - relevant and appropriate and substantial questions - you have learned how to learn and no one can keep you from learning whatever you want or need to know."
Neil Postman