Education must always concentrate its resources at the point of major information intake. Today, therefore, we have a great culture lag. We still use only the concept of book culture in our classrooms while the forms projected at us by our technology are greatly more informative than any verbal message they convey.
“An Historical Approach to Media (1955)”, Excerpts from manuscript, lecture given in Ed. 261PR·July 26, 1955, p 3
Year: 1955
Chapter:
Education
Compiled by William Kuhns
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