A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

The idea of the ‘content’ of education as something to be lodged in the mind as a container thus belongs to the preelectronic phase and to the era of Euclidean space and Newtonian mechanics. A structure cannot be contained.
“We Need a New Picture of Knowledge,” in New Insights and the Curriculum (Washington, DC: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, (1963), p 66
Year: 1963
Chapter: Education
Compiled by William Kuhns
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