Conscientious Objections: Stirring Up Trouble About Language, Technology and Education
Conscientious Objections: Stirring Up Trouble About Language, Technology and Education by Neil Postman
1988 | ISBN: 067973421X, 039457270X | English | 224 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
1988 | ISBN: 067973421X, 039457270X | English | 224 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
In a series of feisty and ultimately hopeful essays, one of America's sharpest social critics casts a shrewd eye over contemporary culture to reveal the worst – and the best – of our habits of discourse, tendencies in education, and obsessions with technological novelty. Readers will find themselves rethinking many of their bedrock assumptions: Should education transmit culture or defend us against it? Is technological innovation progress or a peculiarly American addiction? When everyone watches the same television programs – and television producers don't discriminate between the audiences for Sesame Street and Dynasty – is childhood anything more than a sentimental concept? Writing in the traditions of Orwell and H.L. Mencken, Neil Postman sends shock waves of wit and critical intelligence through the cultural wasteland.