Neil Postman was a University Professor, the Paulette Goddard Chair of Media Ecology, and the chair of the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, all at New York University. Among his 20 books are studies of childhood (The Disappearance of Childhood); public discourse (Amusing Ourselves to Death); education (Teaching as a Subversive Activity and The End of Education); and the impact of technology (Technopoly). His interest in education was long-standing, beginning with his experience as an elementary and secondary school teacher. He died in 2003.
“A healthy dose of Postman and Weingartner is a good thing: if they
make even a dent in the pious . . . American classroom, the book
will be worthwhile.”—New York Times Book Review
“Teaching and knowledge are subversive in that they necessarily
substitute awareness for guesswork, and knowledge for experience.
Experience is no use in the world of Apollo 8. It is simply
necessary to know. However, it is also necessary to know the effect
of Apollo 8 in creating a new Global Theatre in which student and
teacher alike are looking for roles. Postman and Weingartner make
excellent theatrical producers in the new Global Theatre.”—Marshall
McLuhan
“It will take courage to read this book . . . but those who are
asking honest questions—what’s wrong with the worlds in which we
live, how do we build communication bridges cross the Generation
Gap, what do they want from us?—these people will squirm in the
discovery that the answers are really within themselves.”—Saturday
Review
“Neil Postman and Charles Weingartner go beyond the now-familiar
indictments of American education to propose basic ways of
liberating both teachers and students from becoming personnel
rather than people . . . the authors have created what may become a
primer of ‘the new education’ Their book is intended for anyone,
teacher or not, who is concerned with sanity and survival in a
world of precipitously rapid change, and it’s worth your
reading.”—Playboy
“This challenging, liberating book can unlock not only teachers but
anyone for whom language and learning are not dead.”—Nat Hentoff
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