Parents were eager to hope that television could teach their children something other than which breakfast cereal has the most crackle.
At the same time, Sesame Street relieved them of the responsibility of teaching their pre-school children how to readno small matter in a culture where children are apt to be considered a nuisance....
We now know that Sesame Street encourages children to love school only if school is like Sesame Street. Which is to say, we now know that Sesame Street undermines what the traditional idea of schooling represents.
― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
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