A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

We relate everything to the fixed point of change. An educational system that tries to hold a line is making the Maginot Line mistake. What happens to Maginot Lines is that people ignore them and go around them. The dropouts are just people who are going around the Maginot Line of our educational system, looking for some other source of entry into the territory of their times.
“Electronics & the psychic drop-out”, in This Magazine is about Schools, April, 1966, p 41
Year: 1966
Chapter: Education
Compiled by William Kuhns
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