TY - BOOK AU - POSSTMAN, Neil TI - Conscientious objections: stirring up trouble about language, technology and education SN - 0-679-73421-X U1 - 303.4097 POS 22nd ed. PY - 1988/// CY - NewYork PB - Vintange Books, KW - Language and education, Technology Social aspects, Mass media United States N1 - Includes index N2 - In a series of essays, Postman casts a shrewd eye over contemporary culture to reveal the worst--and the best--of our habits of discourse, tendencies in education, and obsessions with technological novelty. Listeners will find themselves rethinking many of their bedrock assumptions: Should education transmit culture or defend us against it? Is technological innovation progress or a peculiarly American addiction? ER -