Conscientious Objections
Stirring Up Trouble About Language, Technology and Education
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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 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.
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Conscientious Objections, Neil Postman
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- 1992
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- Title
- Conscientious Objections
- Subtitle
- Stirring Up Trouble About Language, Technology and Education
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Neil Postman
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Released
- 1992
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 201
- ISBN10
- 067973421X
- ISBN13
- 9780679734215
- Series
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- Historical Themes, Business, Psychological Topics, References & Manuals, Philosophical Topics, Science, USA, Wars, Technology, Education & School System, School, Society, Linguistics, Journalism, Leadership, Political Theories, Communication, Writing, Culture, 21st Century, Race, Racism, Employment, Ethics, Future, Internet, Social Justice, Capitalism, Social Aspects, Mass Media, Critical Thinking
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- 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 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.