{"id":486,"date":"2009-06-28T18:24:23","date_gmt":"2009-06-28T23:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stager.tv\/?p=486"},"modified":"2020-07-25T18:59:53","modified_gmt":"2020-07-25T23:59:53","slug":"must-read-classic-for-all-conference-attendees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stager.tv\/?p=486","title":{"rendered":"Must-read Classic for All Conference Attendees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the late 1960s, Neil Postman wrote extensively about how educational quality and a healthy democracy were dependent on each citizen having a highly sensitive \u201cshockproof crap detector in their survival kit.\u201d The classic book he co-authored with Charles Weingarten, <em><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><a title=\"Teaching as a Subversive Activity\" href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/l2ta7h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Teaching as a Subversive Activity<\/a>, <\/span><\/em>(Delacorte Press, 1969) discusses crap detection as fundamental to learning.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<span>In fact, Postman delivered a paper at the 1969 National Council of Teachers of English annual conference, entitled, <span style=\"color: navy;\"><span style=\"color: navy;\">\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsforreal.com\/BS.doc\">Bulls#@t and the Art of Crap-Detection<\/a><\/span><\/span>.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; 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