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

If parents wish to preserve childhood for their own children, they must conceive of parenting as an act of rebellion against culture

The effects of technology are always unpredictable. But they are not always inevitable.

A book is an attempt to make through permanent and to contribute to the great conversation conducted by authors of the past. […] The telegraph is suited only to the flashing of messages, each to be quickly replaced by a more up-to-date message. Facts push other facts into and then out of consciousness at speeds that neither permit nor require evaluation. (70)

Everything we know has its origins in questions. Questions, we might say, are the principal intellectual instruments available to human beings.

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

The shock of twentieth-century technology numbed our brains and we are just beginning to notice the spiritual and social debris that our technology has strewn about us.