How delighted would be all the kings, czars and führers of the past (and commissars of the present) to know that censorship is not a necessity when a… - Neil Postman

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

The world of the known and the not yet known is bridged by wonderment. But wonderment happens largely in a situation where the child’s world is separate from the adult world, where children must seek entry, through their questions, into the adult world. As media merge the two worlds, as the tension created by secrets to be unraveled is diminished, the calculus of wonderment changes. Curiosity is replaced by cynicism or, even worse, arrogance. We are left with children who rely not on authoritative adults but on news from nowhere. We are left with children who are given answers to questions they never asked. We are left, in short, without children.

Typography fostered the modern idea of individuality, but it destroyed the medieval sense of community and integration