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By MALCOLM SCHANTZ
A lady called on me recently to recruit Wakefield Country Day School students for National TV-Turnoff Week. As we chatted, I expressed doubt that many of my pupils spent too much time in front of thfe television set; the school day, sports, the ride home, and homework every night consume most of their waking hours.
Nevertheless, 1 agreed with her that television is too much with us, and that its influence is more bad than good. A week of abstaining from watching television struck me as a very worthwhile idea.
Television requires no action or thought by the viewer beyond simply turning it on, and it has encouraged more than one generation of young people to sit passively before it and be entertained. The unhealthy expectation of stimulation without engagement has become a part of the youth culture and may underlie its fascination with the highs available from the street comer pharmacopoeia. At the very least, it leads to flaccid imaginations and a weak intellect, in the same way that a lack of physical exercise leads to flaccid muscles and a feeble
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