By the age of six the average child will have completed the basic American education.... From television, the child will have learned how to pick a lock, commit a fairly elaborate bank holdup, prevent wetness all day long, get the laundry twice as white, and kill people with a variety of sophisticated armaments.
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Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the read more
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?
All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?
If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
Television -- a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well-done.
Television -- a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well-done.
To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I read more
To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States.
What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and read more
What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them
America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence read more
America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.
Television is a corporate vulgarity.
Television is a corporate vulgarity.
Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
