"Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.“


-Marshall McLuhan

posted in education


Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.

Other Quotes You Might Like

Discover more inspiring quotes from our collection

"Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam."

-Marshall McLuhan

warView Quote
"The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar."

-Marshall McLuhan

travelView Quote
"It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame."

-Marshall McLuhan

technologyView Quote
"The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way."

-Marshall McLuhan

technologyView Quote
"As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'"

-Marshall McLuhan

technologyView Quote
"The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology."

-Marshall McLuhan

technologyView Quote

More Quotes About education

Explore other inspiring quotes in this category

"In Holland, they have come to precisely the same conclusion. There they have adopted a system of secular education, because they have found it impracticable to unite the religious bodies in any system of combined religious instruction."

-Richard Cobden

educationView Quote
"I confess that for fifteen years my efforts in education, and my hopes of success in establishing a system of national education, have always been associated with the idea of coupling the education of this country with the religious communities which exist."

-Richard Cobden

educationView Quote
"I studied secondary education."

-Jim McKay

educationView Quote
"I feel that education needs an overhaul - courses are obsolete and grades are on the way out."

-Kent McCord

educationView Quote
"I feel like in America, we don't have a kid problem. You think about all these issues that these kids are dealing with, we have an adult problem. We have adults that do not place the priority on our kids to get a valuable education."

-Alonzo Mourning

educationView Quote
"Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded."

-Sidney Blumenthal

educationView Quote