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

- Neil Postman

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…

- Neil Postman

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

- Neil Postman

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,…

- Neil Postman

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

- Neil Postman

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…

- Neil Postman

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

- Neil Postman

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

- 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 f…

- Neil Postman