A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

Ads, comics, and movies are not codes in North America but basic languages. That we have not yet begun to teach their grammars is as natural as it is for pre-literate man to ignore the written or visual mode of his language. Grammar comes from the Greek “written.” And education would seem to involve the translation of experience into a new mode.
The Medium Is the Message, (1960), p 24
Year: 1960
↪ Also at #3235, #4492
Compiled by William Kuhns
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