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young people today, however. My family had no TV set in our home during my grade school days; neither my boarding school nor the U.S. Naval Academy permitted television in rooms, and 1 spent ten years at sea and six years overseas as an active duty naval officer. 1 had plenty of time away from the glowing tube to learn the pleasures of reading, and reading remains by far my favorite solitary pastime.
The ubiquitous television set and its siren call is unlikely to go away; indeed, designs for bigger, better TV receivers and satellite systems for transmission are well underway. And after all, television in reasonable doses is harmless. It is controlling the strength of the dosage that requires an act of will. That’s why the TV turnoff pledge is attractive to me. Only through an exercise of will can television be made to take its rightful, minor, place in our lives. The pledge to forego TV for a week is a positive, constructive step in forging the selfdiscipline to assume control of our lives, our minds, and our values.
Editor's note: Mr. Schantz is the head master at Wakefield Country Day School.
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