Just once in a while let us exalt the importance of ideas and information.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the value of ideas and information in our lives.
Edward R. Murrow highlights the significance of cherishing and uplifting ideas and information, suggesting that they play a crucial role in shaping society and fostering progress. By encouraging a focus on the importance of knowledge, the quote advocates for a culture where intellectual curiosity and the dissemination of information are celebrated.
In practice
In a speech about the role of media in society, you might quote Murrow to emphasize how vital information is.
We have currently a built-in allergy to unpleasant or disturbing information. Our mass media reflect this. But unless we get up off our fat surpluses and recognize that television in the main is being used to distract, delude, amuse, and insulate us, then television and those who finance it, those who look at it, and those who work at it, may see a totally different picture too late.
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.
One of the basic troubles with radio and television news is that both instruments have grown up as an incompatible combination of show business, advertising and news. Each of the three is a rather bizarre and demanding profession. And when you get all three under one roof, the dust never settles.
Speaking of Sir Winston Churchill: He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle.
We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.
Fifty percent of all meaningful education takes place in the home. What do you share with your child? You share your interests. I was a book person. I read with my son. My wife is an artist. She dragged his little butt around to museums. He's an illustrator of children's books.
The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read.
We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.
There is no substitute for practical experience, and if you want to write about people you ought to put down that comic book and go out and meet some of them rather than studying the way that Stan Lee or Chris Claremont depict people.
Give yourself permission to dream. Fuel your kids' dreams too. Once in a while, that might even mean letting them stay up past their bedtimes.
Everybody should be interested in access to primary and secondary education for everybody.
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