I t is difficult to escape the influence of television. If you fit the statistical messages, by the age of 20 you will have been exposed 1 at least 20,000 hours of television. You can add 10,000 hours for each decade you have lived 2 the age of 20. The only things Americans do more than them watch the television are work and sleep. Calculate for a moment what could be done with even a part of those 3 .Five thousand, I am told, are what a typical college undergraduate 4 working in a bachelor ’ s degree. In 10,000 hours you corded have learned several languages fluently, you could be reading Shakespeare in the 5 ,and you could have walked around the world and 6 a book about these hours. The trouble with television is 7 it discourages concentrations. Almost anything interesting and rewarding in life 8 some constructive effort .The dullest , the least gifted of us can achieve things that seem remarkable to those 9 never concentrate on anything .But television encourages us not to make any 10 .It makes the time pass without gain.