Education Research: This is a process whereby serious educators discover knowledge that is well known to everybody, and has been for several centuries. Its principal characteristic is that no one pays any attention to it.

Typography fostered the modern idea of individuality, but it destroyed the medieval sense of community and integration.

When media make war against each other, it is a case of world-views in collision.

People in distress will sometimes prefer a problem that is familiar to a solution that is not.

People of a television culture need “plain language” both aurally and visually, and will even go so far as to require it in some circumstances by law. The Gettysburg Address would probably have been largely incomprehensible to a 1985 audience.

An educated mind is practiced in the uses of reason, which inevitably leads to a skeptical outlook.

'The scientific method,' Thomas Henry Huxley once wrote, 'is nothing but the normal working of the human mind.' That is to say, when the mind is working; that is to say further, when it is engaged in correcting its mistakes.