Neil Postman Quotes About Reading

Quotes about: Reading

• What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance.

  Neil Postman

  Truth, Fear, Book

  "Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business". Book by Neil Postman, 1985.

• Children enter school as question marks and leave as periods.

  Neil Postman

  Education, Children, Reading

  Neil Postman (2011). “The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School”, p.70, Vintage

• The reader must come armed , in a serious state of intellectual readiness. This is not easy because he comes to the text alone. In reading, one's responses are isolated, one'sintellect thrown back on its own resourses. To be confronted by the cold abstractions of printed sentences is to look upon language bare, without the assistance of either beauty or community. Thus, reading is by its nature a serious business. It is also, of course, an essentially rational activity.

  Neil Postman

  Reading, Community, Intellectual

• Reading is the scourge of childhood because, in a sense, it creates adulthood.

  Neil Postman

  Reading, Childhood, Scourge

  Neil Postman (2011). “The Disappearance of Childhood”, p.13, Vintage

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