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Television watching does reduce reading and often encroaches on homework. Much if it is admittedly the intellectual equivalent of junk food.

E. D. Hirsch

Differences in reading ability between five-year olds and eight-year olds are caused primarily by the older children's possessing more knowledge, not by the differences in their memory capacities, reasoning abilities, or control of eye movements.

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We have too readily blamed shortcomings in American education on social changes (the disorientation of the American family or the impact of television) or incompetent teachers or structural flaws in our schools systems. But the chief blame should fall on faulty theories promulgated in our schools of education and accepted by educational policymakers.

E. D. Hirsch

Schools have, or should have, children for six or seven hours a day, five days a week, nine months a year, for thirteen years or more. To assert that they are powerless to make a significant impact on what their students learn would be to make a claim about American education that few parents, teachers, or students would find it easy to accept.

E. D. Hirsch

E. D. Hirsch

E. D. Hirsch

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Born: March 22, 1928 (age 98)

Bio: Eric Donald Hirsch, Jr. is an American educator and academic literary critic. He is professor emeritus of education and humanities at the University of Virginia.

Known for:

The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy (1988)

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