Twitter Book Club: Neil Postman (1992) Technopoly - ch11

The Loving Resistance Fighter

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"School, to be sure, is a technology itself, but of a special kind in that, unlike most technologies, it is customa... http://tl.gd/92777lless than a minute ago via Twittelatoranderscj
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"There is no definitive history of anything; there are only histories, human inventions which do not give us the an... http://tl.gd/927ch1less than a minute ago via Twittelatoranderscj
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"A reading test does not invite one to ask whether or not what is written is true. Or, if it is true, what it has t... http://tl.gd/927h02less than a minute ago via Twittelatoranderscj
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"there is no subject better suited to freeing us from the tyrant of the present than the historical study of art. P... http://tl.gd/927i3nless than a minute ago via Twittelatoranderscj
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"our youth must be shown that nor all worthwhile things are instantly accessible and that there are levels of sensi... http://tl.gd/927jlmless than a minute ago via Twittelatoranderscj
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I really love the ideas Postman presents in this concluding chapter of his book. It would be wonderful if we would "go back to the basics" of Semantics, Arts, and Histories (plural) but I really don't think it is likely. Unless, that is, we utilize another strategy proposed by Postman in a different book, Teaching as a Subversive Activity.