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Neil Postman (March 8, 1931 – October 5, 2003) was an American author, educator, media theorist and cultural critic, who is best known for his seventeen books, including ''Amusing Ourselves to Death'' (1985), ''Conscientious Objections'' (1988), ''Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology'' (1992), ''The Disappearance of Childhood'' (1994) and ''The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School'' (1995). For more than forty years, he was associated with New York University. Postman was a humanist, who believed that "new technology can never substitute for human values". Postman died in 2003 of lung cancer. ==Biography== Postman was born in New York City, where he would spend most of his life.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=A teacher's life: Remembering Neil Postman )〕 In 1953, he graduated from State University of New York at Fredonia where he played basketball.〔〔 At Teachers College, Columbia University he was awarded a master's degree in 1955 and an Ed.D degree in 1958.〔 In 1959, he began teaching at New York University (NYU).〔 In 1971, at NYU's Steinhardt School of Education (originally known as SEHNAP, School of Education, Health, Nursing, and Arts Professions), he founded a graduate program in media ecology.〔 He became the School of Education's only University Professor in 1993,〔 and was chairman of the Department of Culture and Communication until 2002. He died of lung cancer in Flushing, Queens, on October 5, 2003.〔Wolfgang Saxon: (''New York Times'' Obituary: Neil Postman, October 9, 2003 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Neil Postman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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