A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

The immediate need and future of education is not in the dissemination of knowledge, but of ignorance. The open university of the U.K. made the ordinary mistake of putting the old curriculum and old classroom on the new TV media. The immediate need is for these media to bring, to the microphone and the studio, people from every field of knowledge and endeavour to explain to the public not their knowledge, but their ignorance; not their expertise, but their hang-ups; not their breakthroughs, but their breakdowns.
Convocation address U. of Alberta, November 20th, 1971
Year: 1971
Chapter: Problem Solving
Compiled by William Kuhns
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