Neil Postman Quotes

The thing is that, they all had real strong personalities and real distinct identities, and I don't find most of the groups that are coming out now really do.

Citizens are not born. They are raised.

At this level, the individual perceives the maintenance of the expectations of his family, group, or nation as valuable in its own right, regardless of immediate and obvious consequences.

We all learn from each other, and I never really hung out with guys in that way, so I missed out.

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

But the further step, by means of which a civilization is given its quality or culture, is only attained by a process of cellular division, in the course of which the individual is differentiated, made distinct from and independent of the parent group.

Learning isn't something you should only do solo.

You cannot isolate yourself from the crowd - even if you want to.

In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks.

Peers often matter more than parents.

Education is teaching of the overall citizenship, to learn to live together with fellow citizens. And, above all, to learn to obey the law.

Society becomes how we behave.

Just as the earth is a planet in its own right, so each of us is an individual in our own sphere of habitation. We are individuals, but we live in families and communities where order provides a system of harmony that hinges on obedience to principles.

Half the point of education is to build peer groups and social bonds.

Beings who are born not only unaware of, but quite indifferent to, the aims and habits of the social group have to be rendered cognizant of them and actively interested. Education, and education alone, spans the gap.

One must choose between making a man or a citizen, for one cannot make both at the same time.

There is no transgression blacker than to do or think alone.

Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that was called cheating. The curriculum sent the clear message to me that learning was a highly individualistic, almost secretive, endeavor. My working class experience...was disparaged.

Being in a group, you don't really get to give an ounce of who you are as a solo artist.

I think that it is important to mingle with your peers and get to know the people that you coming up with because everything that we're doing is history.

At a collective level, learning is an essential link in our society.

I might come across like kind of a show-off onstage and stuff, but I like collaborating with people.

Our policies should be to help develop civil society and increase contacts with people.

Every actor demands different things. Every human being you come in contact with in your life, you have to deal with in slightly different ways.

Primates are really well designed to see who is not keeping up their end of the deal.