Most children were irregular attenders of school with only three to five years of schooling altogether. ... It was set apart and designed for instruction. ... My parents were blue- collar workers with strong religious beliefs. ... In 1993 Postman suggested that, " Television may bring a gradual end to the careers of school teachers, since school was an invention of the printing press and must stand or fall on the issue of how much importance the printed word has." ... Postman (1993) points out that these children are not stupid but the victims of the media war that rages in the nineties. ...

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• Grade Level: High School