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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=506328" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Television</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The most important thing we've learned,<br>So far as children are concerned,<br>Is never, NEVER, NEVER let<br>Them near your television set --<br>Or better still, just don't install<br>The idiotic thing at all.<br>In almost every house we've been,<br>We've watched them gaping at the screen.<br>They loll and slop and lounge about,<br>And stare until their eyes pop out.<br>(Last week in someone's place we saw<br>A dozen eyeballs on the floor.)<br>They sit and stare and stare and sit<br>Until they're hypnotised by it,<br>Until they're absolutely drunk<br>With all that shocking ghastly junk.<br>Oh yes, we know it keeps them still,<br>They don't climb out the window sill,<br>They never fight or kick or punch,<br>They leave you free to cook the lunch<br>And wash the dishes in the sink --<br>But did you ever stop to think,<br>To wonder just exactly what<br>This does to your beloved tot?<br>IT ROTS THE SENSE IN THE HEAD!<br>IT KILLS IMAGINATION DEAD!<br>IT CLOGS AND CLUTTERS UP THE MIND!<br>IT MAKES A CHILD SO DULL AND BLIND<br>HE CAN NO LONGER UNDERSTAND<br>A FANTASY, A FAIRYLAND!<br>HIS BRAIN BECOMES AS SOFT AS CHEESE!<br>HIS POWERS OF THINKING RUST AND FREEZE!<br>HE CANNOT THINK -- HE ONLY SEES!<br>'All right!' you'll cry. 'All right!' you'll say,<br>'But if we take the set away,<br>What shall we do to entertain<br>Our darling children? Please explain!'<br>We'll answer this by asking you,<br>'What used the darling ones to do?<br>'How used they keep themselves contented<br>Before this monster was invented?'<br>Have you forgotten? Don't you know?<br>We'll say it very loud and slow:<br>THEY ... USED ... TO ... READ! They'd READ and READ,<br>AND READ and READ, and then proceed<br>To READ some more. Great Scott! Gadzooks!<br>One half their lives was reading books!<br>The nursery shelves held books galore!<br>Books cluttered up the nursery floor!<br>And in the bedroom, by the bed,<br>More books were waiting to be read!<br>Such wondrous, fine, fantastic tales<br>Of dragons, gypsies, queens, and whales<br>And treasure isles, and distant shores<br>Where smugglers rowed with muffled oars,<br>And pirates wearing purple pants,<br>And sailing ships and elephants,<br>And cannibals crouching 'round the pot,<br>Stirring away at something hot.<br>(It smells so good, what can it be?<br>Good gracious, it's Penelope.)<br>The younger ones had Beatrix Potter<br>With Mr. Tod, the dirty rotter,<br>And Squirrel Nutkin, Pigling Bland,<br>And Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and-<br>Just How The Camel Got His Hump,<br>And How the Monkey Lost His Rump,<br>And Mr. Toad, and bless my soul,<br>There's Mr. Rat and Mr. Mole-<br>Oh, books, what books they used to know,<br>Those children living long ago!<br>So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,<br>Go throw your TV set away,<br>And in its place you can install<br>A lovely bookshelf on the wall.<br>Then fill the shelves with lots of books,<br>Ignoring all the dirty looks,<br>The screams and yells, the bites and kicks,<br>And children hitting you with sticks-<br>Fear not, because we promise you<br>That, in about a week or two<br>Of having nothing else to do,<br>They'll now begin to feel the need<br>Of having something to read.<br>And once they start -- oh boy, oh boy!<br>You watch the slowly growing joy<br>That fills their hearts. They'll grow so keen<br>They'll wonder what they'd ever seen<br>In that ridiculous machine,<br>That nauseating, foul, unclean,<br>Repulsive television screen!<br>And later, each and every kid<br>Will love you more for what you did.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Roald+Dahl">Roald Dahl</a><div class=q>
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So far as children are concerned,
Is never, NEVER, NEVER let
Them near your television set --
Or better still, just don't install
The idiotic thing at all.
In almost every house we've been,
We've watched the..."></div>
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