Neil Postman

Naissance 8 March 1931 · Décès 5 October 2003

Citations

“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 anglais
“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 anglais
“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 anglais
“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 anglais
“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 anglais