"If parents wish to preserve childhood for their own children, they must conceive of parenting as an act of rebellion against culture"

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Source : Neil Postman (2011). “Building a Bridge to the 18th Century: How the Past Can Improve Our Future”, p.138, Vintage

Neil Postman

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“The old man laughed loud and joyously, shook up the details of his anatomy from head to foot, and ended by saying that such a laugh was money in a man's pocket, because it cut down the doctor's bills like everything.”
“... it can often be profitable to try a technique on a problem even if you know in advance that it cannot possibly solve the problem completely.”
“Who knew three dots could make such a difference? Like everything else, a love or a wish or whatever, it was all in the way you read it.”
“What the elements are to chemistry, what the sounds are to music, are words to language.”
“Metaphors are the weapons of cowards.”
“The only thing I hope for is that, regardless of what the outward world is for different people, different nations, I hope their internal world is similar. And if I, hopefully, have managed to somehow describe my inner world in this book, all I count on is that it will have some resonance among the American readers, or, at the very least, the American readers will treat this book as a kind of a guidebook for my inner world, strange as it may appear.”
“Teachers at all levels encourage the idea that you have to talk about things in order to understand them, because they wouldn't have jobs, otherwise. But it's phony, you know.”
“You have no choice but to operate in a world shaped by globalization and the information revolution. There are two options: adapt or die.”

Source : "High Output Management". Book by Andrew Grove, p. 229, 1995.

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