Neil Postman Quotes

The price of maintaining membership in the establishment is unquestioning acceptance of authority.

With television, we vault ourselves into a continuous, incoherent present.

Without a purpose, schools are houses of detention, not attention

Typography fostered the modern idea of individuality, but it destroyed the medieval sense of community and integration

In every tool we create, an idea is embedded that goes beyond the function of the thing itself.

What’s wrong with turning back the clock if the clock is wrong? We need not be slaves to our technologies

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

...people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.

Marx understood well that the press was not merely a machine but a structure for discourse, which both rules out and insists upon certain kinds of content and, inevitably, a certain kind of audience.

The clearest way to see through a culture is to attend to its tools for conversation.

Language has an ideological agenda that is apt to be hidden from view.