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"Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman" - Book PReview - Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

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The Importance of Reason in Education

In its absence what possible interest could there be in a list of what the president says now and what he said then. Public has adjusted to incoherence and has been amused into indifference. The television commercial has oriented business away from making products of value and towards making consumers feel valuable. No one has ever said or implied that significant learning is effectively, durably and truthfully achieved when education is entertaining.

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