Summary: Education and Sesame Street
Nguyễn Thanh Mai- Anh 7 CTTTQTKD- K52
Student ID: 1317280041
Course: Business communication 2
Giảng viên: Ms.Giang
SUMMARY “TELEVISION AS TEACHER”- Neil Postman
Nail Postman, who has written many books on the effects of aspects of popular culture on children, claimed that television program runs counter to the purpose of education. To illustrate his point, Nail Postman offer two example: Sesame Street and The Voyage of the Mimi.
In 1969, Sesame Street was embraced by children, parents, and educators. To children, Sesame Street was believed to be “the most crafted environments on TV” and “a series of commercials as teaching material”. To parents, Sesame Street relieved them of the responsibility of restricting their children’s access to television and teaching their pre-school children how to read. To educators, Sesame Street appeared to be “an imaginative aid in solving the growing problem of teaching Americans how to read” and encouraging children to love school. However, we now know that Sesame Street encourages children to love school only if school is like Sesame Street. Yet, it’s not the Sesame Street but the inventors of television to be blamed, because as a good television show, Sesame Street was “made to encourage children to love television”. Moreover, the idea of teaching children letters and numbers is irrelevant, as John Dewey once wrote: “We learn what we do”, on the other hand, “television educates by teaching children to do what television-viewing requires them”. Furthermore, the invention of television in America leads to the third crisis in Western education. “The classroom is still tied to the slow-moving printed word”, meanwhile, television has gained power to control youth education. As a result, television is accurately a curriculum, which “competes successfully with the school curriculum”. First, television contributes the idea that “teaching and entertainment are inseparable”, which is nowhere to be found in educational
Student ID: 1317280041
Course: Business communication 2
Giảng viên: Ms.Giang
SUMMARY “TELEVISION AS TEACHER”- Neil Postman
Nail Postman, who has written many books on the effects of aspects of popular culture on children, claimed that television program runs counter to the purpose of education. To illustrate his point, Nail Postman offer two example: Sesame Street and The Voyage of the Mimi.
In 1969, Sesame Street was embraced by children, parents, and educators. To children, Sesame Street was believed to be “the most crafted environments on TV” and “a series of commercials as teaching material”. To parents, Sesame Street relieved them of the responsibility of restricting their children’s access to television and teaching their pre-school children how to read. To educators, Sesame Street appeared to be “an imaginative aid in solving the growing problem of teaching Americans how to read” and encouraging children to love school. However, we now know that Sesame Street encourages children to love school only if school is like Sesame Street. Yet, it’s not the Sesame Street but the inventors of television to be blamed, because as a good television show, Sesame Street was “made to encourage children to love television”. Moreover, the idea of teaching children letters and numbers is irrelevant, as John Dewey once wrote: “We learn what we do”, on the other hand, “television educates by teaching children to do what television-viewing requires them”. Furthermore, the invention of television in America leads to the third crisis in Western education. “The classroom is still tied to the slow-moving printed word”, meanwhile, television has gained power to control youth education. As a result, television is accurately a curriculum, which “competes successfully with the school curriculum”. First, television contributes the idea that “teaching and entertainment are inseparable”, which is nowhere to be found in educational