“The best current evidence is that media are mere vehicles that deliver instruction but do not influence student achievement any more than the truck that delivers groceries causes change in our nutrition.” FactsCausesInfluenceMediaStudentsAchievementEvidenceMereCurrentsInstructionVehicleNutritionTruckGroceriesStudent Achievement Author:Richard A. Clarke
“Industry in art is a necessity - not a virtue - and any evidence of the same, in the production, is a blemish, not a quality; a proof, not of achievement, but of absolutely insufficient work, for work alone will efface the footsteps of work.” ArtQualityVirtueIndustryAchievementArt IsEvidenceProductionsProofFootstepsInsufficient Book:The Gentle Art of Making Enemies Source: The Gentle Art of Making Enemies
“The Unheavenly Chorus is the definitive study of participatory inequality in America. Marshaling prodigious evidence, the authors show how money not only buys influence directly but also affects associations that are supposed to be democratic antidotes to concentrated wealth. A monumental achievement of careful scholarship, this book offers real knowledge of how politics actually operates.” BookRealShowsAmericaWealthStudyInfluenceOffersAchievementEvidenceDemocraticCarefulInequalitySupposed To BeAssociationAntidoteScholarshipChorusProdigiousReal Knowledge Author:Robert Kuttner
“There is no clear, commanding body of evidence that students' sustained use of multimedia machines, the Internet, word processing, spreadsheets and other popular applications has any impact on academic achievement.'” InternetAchievementEvidenceApplicationAcademic Author:Larry Cuban
“Wars between states and people seem to have existed under all historical systems for as long as we have some recorded evidence. War is quite clearly not a phenomenon particular to the modern world-system. On the other hand, once again the technological achievements of capitalist civilization serve as much ill as good. One bomb in Hiroshima killed more people than whole wars in pre-modern times. Alexander the Great in his whole sweep of the Middle East could not compare in destructiveness to the impact of the Gulf War on Iraq and Kuwait.” PeopleWorldLongWarStatesWholeHandsSeemsModernMiddleParticularCivilizationAchievementEvidenceCapitalismImpactHistoricalIllIraqEastCompareBombsPhenomenonCapitalistMiddle EastTechnologicalModern WorldHiroshimaModern TimesGulf WarKuwaitDestructiveness Author:Immanuel Wallerstein