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To: LindyBill who wrote (142933)	10/14/2005 2:46:33 PM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 793926

And from an evangelical blogger? Were you slumming? :>) My reading is quite a sampler. I read him regularly. He has interesting and thoughtful observations and his style of communication is--I don't know quite how to put this--normal sounding to me. Here's a tidbit from him from my morning's readings. "The late media critic and educator Neil Postman used this same medical analogy in describing the proper role of teachers. In his essay “The Educationist as Painkiller”, Postman proposes that educators don’t try to make students intelligent, because we don’t know how to do that, but instead try to cure stupidity in “some of the more obvious forms, such as either-or thinking; overgeneralization; inability to distinguish between facts and inferences; and reification, a disturbingly prevalent tendency to confuse words with things.” The physician knows about sickness and can offer specific advice about how to avoid it. Don’t smoke, don’t consume too much salt or saturated fat, take two aspirin, take penicillin every four hours and so forth. I am proposing that the study of education and practice of education adopt this paradigm precisely. The educationist should become an expert in stupidity and be able to prescribe specific procedures for avoiding it. “Stupidity is a form of behavior,” adds Postman, “It is not something we have; it is something we do.” The presence of stupidity can therefore be reduced by changing behavior." evangelicaloutpost.com He also had a piece about cool technology where I found this link to the Way Back Machine: archive.org If you have old links, it has really old stuff that's no longer directly accessible on the web.