Every television program must be a complete package in itself. No previous knowledge is to be required. There must not be even a hint that learning is hierarchical, that it is an edifice constructed o...
The credibility of the teller is the ultimate test of the truth of a proposition. (102)
Technological change is neither additive nor subtractive. It is ecological. I mean ecological in the same sense as the word is used by environmental scientists. One significant change generates total...
The opposite of a correct statement is an incorrect statement. The opposite of a profound truth is another profound truth (Niels Bohr). By this, he means that we require a larger reading of the human...
Moreover, we have seen enough by now to know that technological changes in our modes of communication are even more ideology-laden than changes in our modes of transportation. Introduce the alphabet t...
We do not measure a culture based on its output of undisguised trivialities, but what it claims as significant.
We Americans seem to know everything about the last twenty-four hours but very little of the last sixty centuries or the last sixty years.4
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-be-learned as worth learning, and unless he plays an...
It is naive to suppose that something that has been expressed in one form can be expressed in another without significantly changing its meaning, texture or value. Much prose translates fairly well fr...
We rarely talk about television, only about what’s on television
Without a purpose, schools are houses of detention, not attention
Free human dialogue, wandering wherever the agility of the mind allows, lies at the heart of education. If teachers do not have the time, the incentive, or the wit to produce that; if students are too...
..all subjects are forms of discourse and that, therefore, almost all education is a form of language education. Knowledge of a subject mostly means knowledge of the language of that subject. Biology,...
One characteristic of those who live in a Technopoly is that they are largely unaware of both the origins and the effects of their technologies.
If students get a sound education in the history, social effects and psychological biases of technology, they may grow to be adults who use technology rather than be used by it.
Our politics, religion, news, athletics, education and commerce have been transformed into congenial adjuncts of show business, largely without protest or even much popular notice. The result is that...
...people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
The written word is assumed to have been reflected upon and revised by its author, reviewed by authorities and editors.
As Thoreau implied, telegraphy made relevance irrelevant.
I don't think any of us can do much about the rapid growth of new technology. A new technology helps to fuel the economy, and any discussion of slowing its growth has to take account of economic conse...