To keep kids from pop culture? Put the hit parade on the examina… — “Education in the Electronic Age” " The text of an address to the Provincial Committee on the Aims and Objectives of Education of the Schools of Ontario, on January 19, 1967. Printed as Chapter 12.3 in The Best of Times /The Worst of Times: Contemporary Issues in Canadian Education, Editors., H. A. Stevenson, R. M. Stamp, and J. D. Wilson (1972)

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To keep kids from pop culture? Put the hit parade on the examination and all the comic books and all the movies and all the TV shows… and you will find a total desertion of the whole enterprise. It works for Shakespeare; why shouldn’t it work for Bonanza?

“Education in the Electronic Age” " The text of an address to the Provincial Committee on the Aims and Objectives of Education of the Schools of Ontario, on January 19, 1967. Printed as Chapter 12.3 in The Best of Times /The Worst of Times: Contemporary Issues in Canadian Education, Editors., H. A. Stevenson, R. M. Stamp, and J. D. Wilson (1972)

Quote #4317

Year: 1967

Chapter: McLuhanisms & Zingers