A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

What we have called education in recent centuries has consisted in visiting or in stimulating as many earlier environments and cultures as possible. Language is unrivaled in providing the actual sensuous modalities of other environments, with their unique ground rules. Electric circuitry can become a means to bypass language and plug directly into other modes of consciousness.
“The Emperor’s Old Clothes” , (1966),reprinted in McLuhan Unbound #20 (2017), p 11
Year: 1966
Chapter: Education
Compiled by William Kuhns
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