Dumbing Down Quotes

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The dumbing down of America is evident in the slow decay of substantive content, a kind of celebration of ignorance.

I'm generally pessimistic about the dumbing down of America - especially with summer movies.

True literacy is becoming an arcane art, and the nation is steadily "dumbing down."

Dumbing down takes many forms: art that is good for you, museums that flatter you, universities that increase your self-esteem. Culture, after all, is really about you.

At the core of what I'm doing is a belief in the audience, a belief that populism doesn't mean dumbing down theater, but rather giving the audience a voice and a role in experiencing theater.

You go in and meet the head of BBC One and get an assurance about not dumbing down. And then, of course a few months later, he's been replaced by someone you haven't met.

The ability to convince people of the wackiest notions - and both parties can do it - it's part of the dumbing down of America that's really highly problematic.

Everything in television is dumbing down even further and it won't stop until somebody dies.