Teaching as a Subversive Activity Quotes

“Remember: in order for a perception to change one must be frustrated in one's actions or change one's purpose.”
― Neil Postman, Teaching as a Subversive Activity

“There is no way to help a learner to be disciplined, active, and thoroughly engaged unless he perceives a problem to be a problem or whatever is to-be-learned as worth learning, and unless he plays an active role in determining the process of solution.”
― Neil Postman, Teaching as a Subversive Activity

“as the number of messages increases, the amount of information carried decreases. We have more media to communicate fewer significant ideas.”
― Neil Postman, Teaching As a Subversive Activity: A No-Holds-Barred Assault on Outdated Teaching Methods-with Dramatic and Practical Proposals on How Education Can Be Made Relevant to Today's World

“One way of looking at the history of the human group is that it has been a continuing struggle against the veneration of “crap.”
― Neil Postman, Teaching As a Subversive Activity: A No-Holds-Barred Assault on Outdated Teaching Methods-with Dramatic and Practical Proposals on How Education Can Be Made Relevant to Today's World

“It is quite probable that the most original problem solving activity students engage in school is related to the invention of systems for beating the system.”
― Neil Postman, Teaching as a Subversive Activity

“The cosmos offers no absolute confirmations”
― Neil Postman, Teaching as a Subversive Activity

“We cannot afford to ignore Norbert Wiener's observation of a paradox that results from our increasing technological capability in electronic communication: as the number of messages increases, the amount of information carried decreases. We have more media to communicate fewer significant ideas.”
― Neil Postman And Charles Weingartner, Teaching as a Subversive Activity