You can only photograph a fragment of the here and now. The photograph presents the world as object; language, the world as idea.

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.

Reading is the scourge of childhood because, in a sense, it creates adulthood.

The television commercial is not at all about the character of products to be consumed. It is about the character of the consumers of products. (128)

Watching television requires no skills and develops no skills. That is why there is no such thing as remedial television-watching.

Everything in our background has prepared us to know and resist a prison when the gates begin to close around us . . . But what if there are no cries of anguish to be heard? Who is prepared to take arms against a sea of amusements? To whom do we complain, and when, and in what tone of voice, when serious discourse dissolves into giggles? What is the antidote to a culture's being drained by laughter?

[It] is not that television is entertaining but that it has made entertainment itself the natural format for the representation of all experience. […] The problem is not that television presents us with entertaining subject matter but that all subject matter is presented as entertaining. (87)