Analysis Of Television As A Teacher By Neil Postman

“Television as a Teacher” author of Neil Postman describes the effect on what educational television is teaching to children. He claims that people use television as entertainment out of their life, so people expect serious news to be entertained. Postman states academic television does not teach math, science, letters but it can cause entertainment of education, because of this he says school should adopt usage of television to elicit interest of education because children are familiar to entertainment. He uses an example of popular children’s show Sesame Street. Both parents and teachers all allow to watch the show because it encourage children to love the school. He claims that academic show like Sesame Street is mixture of entertainment and education, so children expect all education to be enjoyable.

She uses many examples from her own experiences on poverty, pop cultures, also how media is broadcasting image of underclass that can cause unfavorable stereotypes. She gives an example of personal story that she grown up in a poor family. When she was young, she did not realize that she never saw her as destitute but in college she found how classmates and even professors think poverty is being inactive or untruthful. She was a victim from stereotype from mass media. In that reason, many people are afraid to identify themselves as poor and they think being poor is a humiliation also many poverty people felt that they were no values. Therefore, Hook states that the effect on media, culture, also negative stereotypes have been standard point of the underclass and how poor people view