At its best, schooling can be about how to make a life, which is quite different from how to make a living..

It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions..

Anyone who has studied the history of technology knows that technological change is always a Faustian bargain: Technology giveth and technology taket….

What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who ….

Our politics, religion, news, athletics, education and commerce have been transformed into congenial adjuncts of show business, largely without prote….

The whole problem with news on television comes down to this: all the words uttered in an hour of news coverage could be printed on a page of a newsp….

Information is now a commodity that can be bought and sold, or used as a form of entertainment, or worn like a garment to enhance one's status. It co….

People in distress will sometimes prefer a problem that is familiar to a solution that is not..

If students get a sound education in the history, social effects and psychological biases of technology, they may grow to be adults who use technolog….

Americans no longer talk to each other, they entertain each other. They do not exchange ideas, they exchange images. They do not argue with propositi….

Public schooling does not serve a public; it creates a pubic..

When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversat….

Television is altering the meaning of 'being informed' by creating a species of information that might properly be called disinformation. Disinformat….

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-b….

Everything in our background has prepared us to know and resist a prison when the gates begin to close around us . . . But what if there are no cries….

Embedded in every technology there is a powerful idea, sometimes two or three powerful ideas. Like language itself, a technology predisposes us to fa….

Through the computer, the heralds say, we will make education better, religion better, politics better, our minds better — best of all, ourselves bet….

But in the end, science does not provide the answers most of us require. Its story of our origins and of our end is, to say the least, unsatisfactory….

. . . Americans are the best entertained and quite likely the least well-informed people in the Western world..

It is a mistake to suppose that any technological innovation has a one-sided effect. Every technology is both a burden and a blessing; not either-or,….

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 f….