The Cognoscenti will recall the wizard quotes
Professor Ken Robinson a couple of times during
the 3-day Magical Worlds Communications Workshop.
Robinson, along with Robert Sylwester, is part of
The 21st Century Learning Initiative.  

This 3-minute video of Robinson (below) is worth watching.

“It’s been 25 years since Neil Postman warned in “Amusing Ourselves to Death” that trivia and the entertainment values promoted by television were creating distractions that threatened to subvert public discourse, and more than a decade since writers like James Gleick (“Faster”) and David Shenk (“Data Smog”) described a culture addicted to speed, drowning in data and overstimulated to the point where only sensationalism and willful hyperbole grab people’s attention.”
– MICHIKO KAKUTANI,
Texts Without Context,
The New York Times
March 17, 2010

Now compare Ken Robinson’s reasoned argument (above) with the 2 examples of sensationalism and willful hyperbole (below) the late Neil Postman warned us about 25 years ago. The Cognoscenti will recall the wizard also quotes Neil Postman in his classes at Wizard Academy.

Sorry, Glenn, but you had it coming: