Clifford Stoll Quotes

The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing.

In politics, information is superabundant—what is needed is judgement and selectivity in dealing with that information.

We mistake being able to get lots of information from everywhere very quickly with actually getting knowledge.

Children need to have both time to think and the motivation to think for themselves, to develop an expert reading brain, before the digital mode dominates their reading. The immediacy and volume of information should not be confused with true knowledge.

Media literacy is not just important, it's absolutely critical. It's going to make the difference between whether kids are a tool of the mass media or whether the mass media is a tool for kids to use.

When everybody has access to an avalanche of information, becoming a master thinker is very important in your life-long security.

The information you get from social media is not a substitute for academic discipline at all.

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are conditions for development.

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

I have great faith in the intelligence of the American viewer and reader to put two and two together and come up with four.

We're not that much smarter than we used to be, even though we have much more information - and that means the real skill now is learning how to pick out the useful information from all this noise.

The most important thing I think teachers can do for young people is to make them inquiring, is to ensure that they know how to gather information, that they check information and they take their information from a multiplicity of sources.

Students are very gullible about the web. The only way you can really sort out information on the web is if you've had a prior training in book culture.

If we talk about literacy, we have to talk about how to enhance our children's mastery over the tools needed to live intelligent, creative, and involved lives.

What is the point of teaching how to analyse a poem or a piece of Shakespeare but not to analyse the Internet?

We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.

Just because you've Googled something doesn't mean you've learned.

I'm really grateful I grew up in a house in which media literacy was a survival skill.

I am a writer and editor with a passion for true storytelling. To me, science matters, research matters and knowledge matters, whatever the field.

One of the first things we should teach every student is not to believe everything they read and hear.

It is the mark of a greatly educated person to be deeply moved by statistics.

Facts are incidental if not accidental, and the problem that we have as a society is that there is a significant number of people who have grown up in a different information environment ... surrounded by much more information, but whose provenance is not clear.... The rumors will be believed; the fiction will be thought of as fact; and the political agendas, among other agendas, will be influenced by interest groups who are coming from some quite strange trajectory to issues based on collective understanding that is founded on falsity.

Teachers have told us across the country that what's severely outdated is the teacher at the front of the classroom as the font of knowledge, because as we know, access to knowledge and information is now ubiquitous. So instead, teachers want to help students learn how to think so that they can be lifelong learners.

The child has no way of knowing what's good information.

Thanks to secondary education and the Internet, we're all knowledgeable now - if knowledge means the accumulation of facts. Curators are those who know how to maneuver around that knowledge.