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Dumbing Down Quotes

Popular culture, on average, has been growing more cognitively challenging over the past thirty years, not less. Despite everything you hear about declining standards and dumbing-down, you have to do more intellectual work to make sense of today’s television or games - much less the internet - than you did a few decades ago Picture Quote #1

In pursuit of happiness, smart people often end up dumbing down themselves Picture Quote #1

No one can know how long this dumbing-down of American religion will persist. But so long as it does, citizens should probably be more vigilant about policing the public square, not less so. . . . [Y]ou cannot sustain liberal democracy without cultivating liberal habits of mind among religious believers. That remains true today, both in Baghdad and in Baton Rouge Picture Quote #1

You go in and meet the head of BBC One and get an assurance about not dumbing down. And then, of course a few months later, he’s been replaced by someone you haven’t met Picture Quote #1

The ability to convince people of the wackiest notions - and both parties can do it - it’s part of the dumbing down of America that’s really highly problematic Picture Quote #1

At the core of what I’m doing is a belief in the audience, a belief that populism doesn’t mean dumbing down theater, but rather giving the audience a voice and a role in experiencing theater Picture Quote #1

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If we are going to compete in this world we’re in today, there is no possible way we can do it with lowering expectations and dumbing down everything. Children are going to suffer and families’ hearts are going to be broken that their kids won’t be able to get a job in the 21st Century Picture Quote #1

Dumbing down takes many forms: art that is good for you, museums that flatter you, universities that increase your self-esteem. Culture, after all, is really about you Picture Quote #1

Advocates of dumbing down should note the wonderfully perverse fact that ‘University Challenge’ and ‘Mastermind’ were watched by millions who could hardly even understand the questions, let alone ejaculate the answers. Maybe they just liked to watch smart people sweating Picture Quote #1

And I can see that everything about this God has been purposely designed to poison our experience of life on earth, not to enhance it, to keep us fearful, to suppress knowledge, to curtail freedom and creativity, and to celebrate death. It’s nothing less than the sanctified dumbing-down of the human race. And demanding respect for it is frankly an insult that deserves to be repaid with considerable interest Picture Quote #1

Many people who I respected were disappointed when I started ‘Wine Library TV.’ They thought I was dumbing down wine, but I always knew I was one of the biggest producers of new wine drinkers in the world, and people are realizing it now Picture Quote #1

The dumbing down of the country reflects itself on Broadway. The shows get dumber, and the public gets used to them Picture Quote #1

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People are always talking about the dumbing down of the country Picture Quote #1

There is an epidemic right now of girls dumbing themselves down... In middle school because they think it makes them attractive Picture Quote #1

I’m generally pessimistic about the dumbing down of America - especially with summer movies Picture Quote #1

I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go Picture Quote #1

At the core of what I’m doing is a belief in the audience, a belief that populism doesn’t mean dumbing down theater, but rather giving the audience a voice and a role in experiencing theater Picture Quote #1

The big problem in the long process of dumbing down the schools is that you can reach a point of no return. How are parents who never received a decent education themselves to recognize that their children are not getting a decent education? Picture Quote #1

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Popular culture, on average, has been growing more cognitively challenging over the past thirty years, not less. Despite everything you hear about declining standards and dumbing-down, you have to do more intellectual work to make sense of today’s television or games - much less the internet - than you did a few decades ago (Dumbing Down Quotes) In pursuit of happiness, smart people often end up dumbing down themselves (Dumbing Down Quotes) No one can know how long this dumbing-down of American religion will persist. But so long as it does, citizens should probably be more vigilant about policing the public square, not less so. . . . [Y]ou cannot sustain liberal democracy without cultivating liberal habits of mind among religious believers. That remains true today, both in Baghdad and in Baton Rouge. (Dumbing Down Quotes) You go in and meet the head of BBC One and get an assurance about not dumbing down. And then, of course a few months later, he’s been replaced by someone you haven’t met. (Dumbing Down Quotes) The ability to convince people of the wackiest notions - and both parties can do it - it’s part of the dumbing down of America that’s really highly problematic. (Dumbing Down Quotes) At the core of what I’m doing is a belief in the audience, a belief that populism doesn’t mean dumbing down theater, but rather giving the audience a voice and a role in experiencing theater. (Dumbing Down Quotes) If we are going to compete in this world we’re in today, there is no possible way we can do it with lowering expectations and dumbing down everything. Children are going to suffer and families’ hearts are going to be broken that their kids won’t be able to get a job in the 21st Century (Dumbing Down Quotes) Dumbing down takes many forms: art that is good for you, museums that flatter you, universities that increase your self-esteem. Culture, after all, is really about you (Dumbing Down Quotes) Advocates of dumbing down should note the wonderfully perverse fact that ‘University Challenge’ and ‘Mastermind’ were watched by millions who could hardly even understand the questions, let alone ejaculate the answers. Maybe they just liked to watch smart people sweating (Dumbing Down Quotes) And I can see that everything about this God has been purposely designed to poison our experience of life on earth, not to enhance it, to keep us fearful, to suppress knowledge, to curtail freedom and creativity, and to celebrate death. It’s nothing less than the sanctified dumbing-down of the human race. And demanding respect for it is frankly an insult that deserves to be repaid with considerable interest (Dumbing Down Quotes) Many people who I respected were disappointed when I started ‘Wine Library TV.’ They thought I was dumbing down wine, but I always knew I was one of the biggest producers of new wine drinkers in the world, and people are realizing it now (Dumbing Down Quotes) The dumbing down of the country reflects itself on Broadway. The shows get dumber, and the public gets used to them (Dumbing Down Quotes) People are always talking about the dumbing down of the country (Dumbing Down Quotes) There is an epidemic right now of girls dumbing themselves down... In middle school because they think it makes them attractive (Dumbing Down Quotes) I’m generally pessimistic about the dumbing down of America - especially with summer movies (Dumbing Down Quotes) I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go (Dumbing Down Quotes) At the core of what I’m doing is a belief in the audience, a belief that populism doesn’t mean dumbing down theater, but rather giving the audience a voice and a role in experiencing theater (Dumbing Down Quotes) The big problem in the long process of dumbing down the schools is that you can reach a point of no return. How are parents who never received a decent education themselves to recognize that their children are not getting a decent education? (Dumbing Down Quotes)