Allison

“There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.”
― Vincent Van Gogh

“Perhaps we should abandon the whole idea of trying to make students intelligent and focus on the idea of making them less ignorant. Doctors do not generally concern themselves with health; they concentrate on sickness. And lawyers don't think too much about justice; they think about cases of injustice. Using this model in teaching would imply identifying and understanding various forms of ignorance and working to eliminate as many of them as we can.”
― Neil Postman

“For no medium is excessively dangerous if its users understand what its dangers are. It is not important that those who ask the questions arrive at my answers or Marshall McLuhan's (quite different answers, by the way). This is an instance in which the asking of the questions is sufficient. To ask is to break the spell.”
― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

“If parents wish to preserve childhood for their own children, they must conceive of parenting as an act of rebellion against culture.”
― Neil Postman, Building a Bridge to the 18th Century: How the Past Can Improve Our Future