The free interplay of models of perception and knowledge releases the student into new depth awareness, even of existing structures of knowledge. But the educational process will thus shift from the imparting of information to the critical training of perception. The various structures of knowledge that have been devised by the numerous languages, arts and technologies of mankind can be resolved or inspected almost at the speed of motion picture frames. At such speed would not the unity of human culture and experience become manifest as a single spectrum?
“We Need a New Picture of Knowledge,” in New Insights and the Curriculum (Washington, DC: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, (1963), p 69-70
Year: 1963
Chapter:
Education
Compiled by William Kuhns
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan