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At Its Best, Schooling Can Be About How To Make A Life, Which Is Quite Different From How To Make A Living.

A Definition Is The Start Of An Argument, Not The End Of One.

Voting, We Might Even Say, Is The Next To Last Refuge Of The Politically Impotent. The Last Refuge Is, Of Course, Giving Your Opinion To A Pollster, Who Will Get A Version Of It Through A Desiccated Question, And Then Will Submerge It In A Niagara Of Similar Opinions, And Convert Them Into--what Else?--another Piece Of News. Thus We Have Here A Great Loop Of Impotence: The News Elicits From You A Variety Of Opinions About Which You Can Do Nothing Except To Offer Them As More News, About Which You Can Do Nothing.

[m]ost Of Our Daily News Is Inert, Consisting Of Information That Gives Us Something To Talk About But Cannot Lead To Any Meaningful Action. (68).

It Is A Mistake To Suppose That Any Technological Innovation Has A One-sided Effect. Every Technology Is Both A Burden And A Blessing; Not Either-or, But This-and-that.