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/^t/Why should anybody teach children about television? I have always thought that television is doing irreparable harm. When children are allowed to watch television, they stop reading books. Watching television does not require any work from your brain. And an organ which is not used is said to deteriorate very quickly. So then, maybe by allowing children to watch television, we make it impossible for them to develop mentally? Maybe by letting them sit for hours in front of this one-eyed monster we deprive them of the most useful thing they possess - their imagination? It would really be a horror to live among people with no imagination and no brains. I myself would not like to have brainless friends or, much worse, brainless children.