“Gandhi once said, "I like your Christ. I don't like your Christians." Well, I love America. But there are too many hateful Americans.”

“All that is really necessary to hate someone is not to give a shit about what happens to him. And when we don’t give a shit about what happens to a whole group of Americans because of the color of their skin, that is racism.”

“Trayvon Martin’s killing touches on something universal. His death ought to make us look at ourselves and be honest: we need to realize that no one in America is safe until everyone is safe, that no one in America is a success until everyone is a success, that there is no more central a self-interest than the interests of all.”

“The changeover from one medium to another presents both opportunities and challenges. New technologies empower us, to be sure; but never without some cost which we universally fail to anticipate. We must avoid celebrating the advantages too enthusiastically, lest we miss the meaning of the challenges. For once the changeover is complete, the opportunities and challenges fully assimilated, we will certainly be impotent to undo them.”

“It is a truism today, in this highly technologically-developedculture, that students need technical computer skills. Equally truistic (and, not incidentally, true) is that the workplace hasbecome highly technological. Even more truistic – and farmore disturbing – are the shifts in education over the last twodecades as public elementary schools, public and private highschools, and colleges and universities have invested scoresof billions of dollars on “digital infrastructure,” computers,monitors and printers, “smart classrooms,” all to “meet thedemands” of this new technological workplace."We won’t dwell on the fact – an inconvenient truth? –that those technological investments have coincided with adecline in American reading behaviors, in reading and readingcomprehension scores, in overall academic achievement, in thephenomenon – all too familiar to us in academia – of “gradeinflation,” in an alarming collapse of our students’ understandingof their own history (to say nothing of the history of the rest of the world), rising ignorance of world and American geography, with an abandonment of the idea of objectivity, and with anincreasingly subjective, even solipsistic, emphasis on personalexperience. Ignore all this. Or, if we find it impossible to ignore,then let’s blame the teachers...”

“I see no real evolution in media ecology beyond the “shape shifting” nature that seems to have been deliberately embedded in its fabric. The one thing that must, I think, always define a study we recognize as media ecological is its acknowledgement of the interactions of cultures – and the people who constitute those cultures – and their technologies.”

“The way I see it, we're all either Trayvon Martin or we're George Zimmerman. The choice is ours. There's no in-between.”