As A Culture Moves From Orality To

I Mean To Suggest That Without A Transcendent And Honorable Purpose, Schooling Must Reach Its Finish, And The Sooner We Are Done With It, The Better.

[it] Is Not That Television Is Entertaining But That It Has Made Entertainment Itself The Natural Format For The Representation Of All Experience. […] The Problem Is Not That Television Presents Us With Entertaining Subject Matter But That All Subject Matter Is Presented As Entertaining. (87)

It Is A Mistake To Suppose That Any Technological Innovation Has A One-sided Effect. Every Technology Is Both A Burden And A Blessing; Not Either-or, But This-and-that.

We Are More Naive Than Those Of The Middle Ages, And More Frightened, For We Can Be Made To Believe Almost Anything.

As A Culture Moves From Orality To Writing To Printing To Televising, Its Ideas Of Truth Move With It.