A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

To be involved means to be drawn in, to interact. To go on interacting, the student must get somewhere. In other words, the student and the learning environment (a person, a group of people, a book, a programmed course, an electronic learning console or whatever) must respond to each other in a pleasing and purposeful interplay. When a situation of involvement is set up, the student finds it hard to drag himself away.
“Learning in the Global Village” with George Leonard (1967), in Radical School Reform (1969), p 110
Year: 1967
Chapter: Education
Compiled by William Kuhns
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