Neil Postman Quotes About Mistakes

Quotes about: Mistakes

• It is a mistake to suppose that any technological innovation has a one-sided effect. Every technology is both a burden and a blessing; not either-or, but this-and-that.

  Neil Postman

  Mistake, Technology, Blessing

  Neil Postman (2011). “Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology”, p.14, Vintage

• The scientific method," Thomas Henry Huxley once wrote, "is nothing but the normal working of the human mind." That is to say, when the mind is working; that is to say further, when it is engaged in correcting its mistakes. Taking this point of view, we may conclude that science is not physics, biology, or chemistry — is not even a ”subject " — but a moral imperative drawn from a larger narrative whose purpose is to give perspective, balance, and humility to learning.

  Neil Postman

  Mistake, Humility, Views

  "The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School".

• Make no mistake about it: the labeling of someone's language as 'sexist' involves a political judgment and implies the desirability of a particular sociological doctrine. One may be in favor of that doctrine (as I believe I am) but it is quite another matter to force writers by edicts and censorship into accepting it.

  Neil Postman

  Mistake, Believe, Political

• 'The scientific method,' Thomas Henry Huxley once wrote, 'is nothing but the normal working of the human mind.' That is to say, when the mind is working; that is to say further, when it is engaged in correcting its mistakes.

  Neil Postman

  Mistake, Mind, Scientific Method

  Neil Postman (2011). “The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School”, p.68, Vintage

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