One of the insidious facts about totalitarianism is its seeming "efficiency." ...Democracy - with all of its inefficiency - is still the best system we have so far for enhancing the prospects of our mutual survival. The schools should begin to act as if this were so. (Neil Postman)

One of the insidious facts about totalitarianism is its seeming "efficiency." ...Democracy - with all of its inefficiency - is still the best system we have so far for enhancing the prospects of our mutual survival. The schools should begin to act as if this were so.

Neil Postman

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