adulthood

  1. One of the most beautiful and simple books about life, love, death; about being a child and being an adult; about friendship, people and happiness.

    When I was in 10th grade at school, I remember literature teacher was very enthusiastic about this book. She was telling us about it all the time. I didn’t find it interesting back then. I didn’t understand the story about little prince, talking foxes, flowers and snakes. Form didn’t appeal to me and I probably had nothing to learn from it at that time. This time was different. I would recommend this book to everyone. It’s a pure beauty. Just in few pages it shows what is important in life and what is not.

     Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
  2. “Information revolution” … has made it impossible to keep secrets from the young - sexual secrets, political secrets, social secrets, historical secrets, medical secrets; that is to say, the full content of adult life, which must be kept at least partially hidden from the young if there is to be a category of life known as childhood.
    Neil Postman
  3. Television erases the dividing line between childhood and adulthood in two ways: it requires no instruction to grasp its form, and it does not segregate its audience. Therefore, it communicates the same information to everyone, simultaneously, regardless of age, sex, level of education, or previous condition of servitude.
    Neil Postman
  4. Television obliterates the distinction between child and adult, as it obliterates social secretes, as it undermines concepts of the future and the value of restraint and discipline, we seem destined to be moving back toward a medieval sensibility from which literacy had freed us.
    Neil Postman
  5. I believe that human beings need first to be children before they can be grown-ups. Otherwise, they remain like television’s adult-child all their lives, with no sense of belonging, no capacity for lasting relationships, no respect for limits, and not grasp of the future.
    Neil Postman