Nail Postman, one of the two authors of Teaching as a subversive activity also wrote the prophetic Amusing ourselves to death. I read the introduction to the f

Nail Postman, one of the two authors of Teaching as a subversive activity also wrote the prophetic Amusing ourselves to death. I read the introduction to the former when I was in college in the eighties, and it has stuck with me. They argue that the role of education (especially in a democracy) is to imbue students with "foolproof crap detectors".