Neil Postman
Nació 8 March 1931 · Murió 5 October 2003
<a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Postman>Neil Postman</a> fue un popular humanista estadounidense, conocido por sus reflexiones sobre los efectos sociales de la tecnología, en particular de la televisión.
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“What ideas are convenient to express inevitably becomes the important content of a culture.”
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, Chapter 1En inglés “The clearest way to see through a culture is to attend to its tools for conversation.”
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, Chapter 1En inglés “There is no such thing in nature as “man” or “tree.” The universe offers no such categories or simplifications; only flux and infinite variety.”
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, Chapter 5En inglés “Americans no longer talk to each other, they entertain each other. They do not argue with propositions; they argue with good looks, celebrities and commercials.”
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, Chapter 6En inglés “We do not know nearly as much as we should about how children learn language, but if there is one thing we can say with assurance it is that knowledge of grammatical nomenclature and skill in sentence-parsing have no bearing whatsoever on the process.”
Language Education in a Knowledge ContextEn inglés
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