Neil Postman Quotes

School has never really been about individualized learning, but about how to be socialized as a citizen and as a human being, so that we, we have important rules in school, always emphasizing the fact that one is part of a group.

Neil Postman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 8, 1931 - October 5, 2003

Topics

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My greatest strength as an actor is that I follow my director's brief completely. The film is always the director's visual baby.

John Abraham

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I was born in 1968 and grew up in my grandmother's house in suburban Connecticut, where I was convinced a ghost named Virgil lived in the attic.

Jennifer McMahon

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I think there is sort of a general universal perception of me, or someone who looks like me, as someone who is kind of menacing, dark or mysterious.

Steven Bauer

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You can never deny the immense talent, rock credibility and iconic historical contribution that Van Halen made.

Steve Vai

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The brutal truth is, we're scarcely 'educating' children at all. Even if you overlook the guilt, fear, bigotry, and dangerous anti-intellectual flapdoodle being funneled into young brains by schools on the religious right, what we're doing is training kids to be cogs in the wheels of commerce.

Tom Robbins

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The one thing I've always maintained is that I'm an American Indian. I'm not politically correct.

Russell Means

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The thing about my fridge is, it's a family fridge, so there's a little of something everybody likes in there.

Martina McBride

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I tell you, if I was in the same position I was in 1975, trying to leave a communist country and trying to live a free life, America is not the country that I would think about going to considering how many rights the GOP is trying to take away.

Martina Navratilova

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Some of your worst gangsters are guys who were very low-key.

Mickey Rourke

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I would encourage people to participate in sports. You don't have to dream of being an Olympic or a professional athlete.

Michelle Kwan

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Well, dissent is the tradition in America, and I've been on the side of dissent a good bit of my career, particularly in the last many years of the Republican Congress.

Lloyd Doggett

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I'm not a guy that shows a lot of emotion while I'm playing.

Jose Altuve

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