People in distress will sometimes prefer a problem that is familiar to a solution that is not.
—Neil Postman
Children enter school as question marks and leave as periods.
—Neil Postman
Topics: Education
The point is that profound but contradictory ideas may exist side by side, if they are constructed from different materials and methods. And have different purposes. Each tells us something important about where we stand in the universe, and it is foolish to insist that they must despise each other.
—Neil Postman
Topics: Ideas
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