At its best, schooling can be about how to make a life, which is quite different from how to make a living.

Television is altering the meaning of 'being informed' by creating a species of information that might properly be called disinformation. Disinformation does not mean false information. It means misleading information - misplaced, irrelevant, fragmented or superficial information - information that creates the illusion of knowing something, but which in fact leads one away from knowing.

We are more naive than those of the Middle Ages, and more frightened, for we can be made to believe almost anything.

Voting is the next-to-last refuge of the politically impotent. The last refuge, of course, is giving your opinion to a pollster.

We can make the trains run on time but if they are not going where we want them to go, why bother?

The idea of taking what people call the 'entertainment culture' as a focus of study, including historical perspective, is not a bad idea.

If students get a sound education in the history, social effects and psychological biases of technology, they may grow to be adults who use technology rather than be used by it.