Education in a technological world of replaceable and expendable parts is neuter. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The school system is the homogenizing hopper into which we toss our integral tots for processing. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Some of my fellow academics are very hostile, but I sympathize with them. They've been asleep for 500 years and they don't… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
“Education must shift from instruction, from imposing of stencils, to discovery—to probing and exploration and to the recognition of the language of… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Education, which should be helping youth to understand and adapt to their revolutionary new environments, is instead being used merely as an… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Television is teaching all the time. Does more educating than the schools and all the institutions of higher learning. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Today's child is growing up absurd, because he lives in two worlds, and neither of them inclines him to grow up. Growing… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Today's child is bewildered when he enters the 19th century environment that still characterizes the educational establishment where information is scarce but… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
One main condition of aristocratic life was present in the South and not in the North--personal responsibility to other human beings for… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The media have substituted themselves for the older world. Even if we should wish to recover that older world we can do… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
“At every turn, while he was investigating the background for his study of Thomas Nashe, he would encounter the Church — what… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Language always preserves a play or figure/ground relation between experience, and perception and its replay in expression. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share
I am curious to know what would happen if art were suddenly seen for what it is, namely, exact information of how to rearrange… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share
With the arrival of electric technology, man has extended, or set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous system itself. To the… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share
“The constant broadcast and reception of ghostly images via radio and television, according to this notion, had weakened the sense, particularly among youth, of… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share
Every innovation scraps its immediate predecessor and retrieves still older figures – it causes floods of antiques or nostalgic art forms and stimulates the… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share
The family circle has widened. The worldpool of information fathered by the electric media--movies, Telstar, flight--far surpassesany possible influence mom and dad can now… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share
Like primitive, we now live in a global village of our own making, a simultaneous happening. It doesn't necessarily mean harmony and peace and… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share
Professionalism is environmental. Amateurism is anti-environmental. Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the total awareness of… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share
The visual power of the phonetic alphabet is the translate other languages into itself is part of its power to invade right hemisphere (oral)… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share
New media may at first appear as mere codes of transmission for older achievement and established patterns of thought. But nobody could make the… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share
Youth instinctively understand the present environment - the electric drama. It lives mythically and in depth. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share
Our motor car is our supreme form of privacy when we are away from home. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share
The scientist rigorously defends his right to be ignorant of almost everything except his specialty. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share
