A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

Applying my principle that education must always concentrate its resources at the point of major information intake, we have merely to ask, from what sources do growing minds nowadays acquire most factual data? How much critical awareness is conferred at these points? It is a commentary on our extreme culture lag that when we think of criticism of information flow we still only use the concept of book culture, namely, how much trust can be reposed in the words of the message. Yet the bias of each medium is far more distorting than the deliberate lie.
A Historical Approach to the Media, in Teachers College Record, Vol.57, Issue.2,Nov (1955) ,p 110.
Year: 1955
Chapter: Education
Compiled by William Kuhns
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