In ‘Teaching as an Amusing Activity,’ chapter 10 of Amusing Ourselves to Death, Neil Postman argues that America’s culture of entertainment and television has overtaken education and degraded it. In support of his argument he makes the following three points: that educational television programs teach children to learn in a different manner; that television does not teach hierarchical learning; and that television is conditioning children to be unable to learn without being entertained. Postman argues that television programs teacher children to learn in a manner that is different from a classroom environment, thus making it more difficult for children to learn in a proper classroom. As an example Postman explains how Sesame Street, a popular
