A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

Today’s television child is attuned to up-to-the-minute “adult” news—inflation, rioting, war, taxes, crime, bathing beauties—and is bewildered when he enters the nineteenth century environment that still characterizes the educational establishment where information is scarce but ordered and structured by fragmented, classified patterns, subjects, and schedules. It is naturally an environment much like any factory set-up with its inventories and assembly lines.
The Medium is the Massage with Quentin Fiore, 1967, p 18 “Address at Vision 65”, in The American Scholar, 1965, p 4
Year: 1967
Chapter: Education
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