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The Disappearance of Childhood

Book by Neil Postman · 5 quotes · Childhood, Reading, Social

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“Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see. From a biological point of view it is inconceivable that any culture will forget that it needs to reproduce itself. But it is quite possible for a culture to exist without a social idea of children. Unlike infancy, childhood is a social artifact, not a biological category.”