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..all subjects are forms of discourse and that, therefore, almost all education is a form of language education. Knowledge of a subject mostly means k...more

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Poverty is a great educator. Having no boundaries and refusing to be ignored, it mostly teaches hopelessness. But not always. Politics is also a great...more

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In tracking what people have to say about schooling, I notice that most of the conversation is about means, rarely about ends. . . It is as if we are ...more

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Without a purpose, schools are houses of detention, not attention

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Watch a man--say, a politician--being interviewed on television, an you are observing a demonstration of what both he and his interrogators learned in...more

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...people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.

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Every television program must be a complete package in itself. No previous knowledge is to be required. There must not be even a hint that learning is...more

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Of course, in television's presentation of the "news of the day," we may see the Now...this" mode of discourse in it's boldest and most embarrassing f...more

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In every tool we create, an idea is embedded that goes beyond the function of the thing itself.

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It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcoticized by technological diversions

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For no medium is excessively dangerous if its users understand what its dangers are. It is not important that those who ask the questions arrive at my...more

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Moreover, we have seen enough by now to know that technological changes in our modes of communication are even more ideology-laden than changes in our...more

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What’s wrong with turning back the clock if the clock is wrong? We need not be slaves to our technologies

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There is no way to help a learner to be disciplined, active, and thoroughly engaged unless he perceives a problem to be a problem or whatever is to-be...more

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Educators may bring upon themselves unnecessary travail by taking a tactless and unjustifiable position about the relation between scientific and reli...more