FIRST VINTAGE BOOKS EDITION, FEBRUARY 1992

Copyright © 1988 by Neil Postman

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published in hardcover by
Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, in 1988.

“Megatons for Anthromegs” was originally published in The Village Voice. Reprinted by permission of The Village Voice. Grateful acknowledgment is made to Saturday Review for permission to reprint “Etiquette” by Neil Postman on this page (The Phoenix Nest) of Saturday Review, June 8, 1963.
Copyright © 1963 by Saturday Review.
Reprinted by permission.

Additional acknowledgments of previous publication of selections contained in the present work, and of permission to reprint such previously published material, will be found in the Acknowledgments on this page.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Postman, Neil.
Conscientious objections : stirring up trouble about language,
technology, and education / Neil Postman.—1st Vintage Books ed.
p.   cm.
Originally published: 1st ed. New York: Knopf, 1988.
eISBN: 978-0-307-79731-5
1. Language and education. 2. Technology—Social aspects.
3. Mass media—United States. I. Title.

[P40.8.P667   1992]
303.4′0973—dc20         91-58082

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