While reading chapter 10 in Amusing Ourselves to death by Neil postman, mentions how television
is affecting our education instead of helping us and how it’s changing our way
of seeing reality. Postman say that there are educational shows on television
like sesame street and Dora the Explorer, but deep down its
just making us more addicted to television than helping us. I agree that there
are things that help kids now a day to be a little more advance in school but
for only the few first years. We grow out of that stage and than what? He also
mentions that television is changing our views on the real world; it’s like a
blind fold blocking us from reality. Its making us want and be like celebrities
and have what they want, when in reality half the things they have is fake. Do
you agree with postman that television instead of helping us like it was
suppose to be now harming us instead? Is
it really the televisions fault or is it our fault that we let it get to us in
this way? Can we change the way it is or
are we stuck?
I think that television only helps so much but not to the point where it's teaching us everything we need to know. I do learn things on TV that I do not learn at school but I don't learn much. But I think that television is harming us but only because we are letting it harm us, we don't have to watch certain things on TV but we do. Honestly I think it's up to us to have self control over what we watch.
ReplyDeleteDesiree is right in her comment, I also learn things from watching television that I do not learn at Mayfair. But there's 10x more information, that's important, that I do in fact learn at school. TV has a lot to offer, but relying on it to teach one's self or one's child is idiotic. No child will be successful if all he/she knows how to do is help Dora unpack her backpack. It's good that some shows have educational material for the young minds, but at the same time are they really remembering what they're watching? It's much more effective to have a teacher or instructor guiding you through unfamiliar material. If children spend so much time watching TV I highly doubt that time is spent learning, most likely just watching cartoons. Hours on top of hours are drained by watching television, and it's up to you to control how often you sit down and watch.
ReplyDeleteit's our fault. Yes, television is programmed to brainwash us and make it so we never stop watching, but as humans we have the power of choice. Yet we don't use it. We waste away, and we know we are doing it.
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