Neil Postman Quotes
If students get a sound education in the history, social effects and psychological biases of technology, they may grow to be adults who use technology rather than be used by it.
Quotes to Explore
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Education is the mother of leadership.
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The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
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The angel of mercy, the child of love, together had flown to the realms above.
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A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
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I give the children education.
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I used to be really insecure about my self-education. I'm definitely always learning. But there's many ways to learn. There are many, many ways to always be a learner.
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The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.
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When I was young in L.A. and I couldn't get into clubs or restaurants, I would call imitating celebrities and get a table, and it would work often. I was either Stallone or Mickey Rourke: 'This is Sly. I may be late, but my buddy Hank will be there early.'
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Computing technology started out as number-crunching.
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O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!
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The Cause of God is not a theatrical display that is presented every hour, of which some new diversion may be asked for every day. If it were thus, the Cause of God would become mere child's play.
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Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.
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A show hosted by a black had never been accepted, so the first time that knob's turned on, people are judging against all they have ever been taught. I may have been the first black in the house.
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If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
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My whole musical life has been an educational process, and I'm just furthering my education and filling in the blanks. There's stuff that I want to know that I don't know.
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History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
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I'm sure in the history of Harvard, and the history of most schools, there's been some pretty crazy parties that I'm not even sure you could even capture on film how silly and ridiculous they were.
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Over the course of history, the people who are not scared go into the woods and are mauled by a bear, are not going to survive.
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A molecular manufacturing technology will let us build molecular surgical tools, and those tools will, for the first time, let us directly address the problems at the very root level.
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An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.
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The biggest engineering companies, like Schlumberger, Halliburton and others, have technology they spent billions of dollars developing.
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Conformity is the last refuge of the unimaginitive.
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What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.
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If students get a sound education in the history, social effects and psychological biases of technology, they may grow to be adults who use technology rather than be used by it.
