A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

[I]f education has now become the basic investment and activity of the electronic age, then the classroom educator can recover his role only by enlarging it beyond anything it ever was in any previous culture. We cannot hope simply to retain our old prerogatives. Our bridges are gone and the Rubicon is yet to cross!
“The Post-Literate Man”, 1973, Cycle 7: Essays, Short Stories, Poems for Freshman English, ed. by James Burl Hogins and Robert Earl Yaber, p 231
Year: 1973
Chapter: Education
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