Conscientious Objections: Stirring Up Trouble About Language, Technology, and Education

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 assumptions: 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.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Author: Postman, Neil

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Inc.

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

ISBN-10: 039457270X

ISBN-13: 9780394572703