There was a time when educators became famous for providing reasons for learning; now they become famous for inventing a method. - Neil Postman

technological change is not additive; it is ecological. A new technology does not merely add something; it changes everything”.

[It] is not that television is entertaining but that it has made entertainment itself the natural format for the representation of all experience. […] The problem is not that television presents us with entertaining subject matter but that all subject matter is presented as entertaining. (87)

There is no such thing in nature as “man” or “tree.” The universe offers no such categories or simplifications; only flux and infinite variety. The photograph documents and celebrates the particularities of this infinite variety. Language makes them comprehensible.