Monday 21 November 2005

from Neil Postman's "Teaching As A Subversive Activity"

  "Those who are sensitive to the verbally built-in biases of their natural environment seem "subversive" to those who are not. There is probably nothing more dangerous to the prejudices of the latter than a man in the process of discovering that the language of his group is limited, misleading or one-sided. Such a man is dangerous because he is not easily enlisted on the side of one ideology or another, because he sees beyond the words to the processes which give an ideology its reality."

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