Neil Postman Quote

The question, "How well does one read?" is a bad question... essentially unanswerable. A more proper question is "How well does one read poetry, or history, or science, or religion?" No one I have ever known is so brilliant as to have learned the languages of all fields of knowledge equally well. Most of us do not learn some of them at all.


Language Education in a Knowledge Context (1980)


The question, How well does one read? is a bad question... essentially unanswerable. A more proper question is How well does one read poetry, or...

The question, How well does one read? is a bad question... essentially unanswerable. A more proper question is How well does one read poetry, or...

The question, How well does one read? is a bad question... essentially unanswerable. A more proper question is How well does one read poetry, or...

The question, How well does one read? is a bad question... essentially unanswerable. A more proper question is How well does one read poetry, or...