The educational illusions of television (Berry)
August 27th, 2006 | Published in Television, Education, Quotes, Culture
Of all the illusions of television, that of its much-touted “educational value” is probably the first. Because of its utter transience as a medium and the complete passivity of its audience, television is doomed to have its effect within the limits of the most narrow and shallow definition of entertainment—that is, entertainment as diversion.
–Wendell Berry, “Discipline and Hope” in A Continuous Harmony (1972), p. 87