Marshall McLuhan, excerpt from "Classroom Without Walls," Explorations in Communication (Boston: Beacon Press, 1960)
On 12/18/05, Enric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Richard Show <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> maybe some of you McLuhan experts can tell me if you know of a
reference for
> a quote that someone attributed to him that was something like
>
> "Anyone who thinks that entertainment and education are different
doesn't
> know the first thing about either."
From http://www.discovery.mala.bc.ca/web/franceke/ :
"Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and
entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either."
-- McLuhan, Marshall
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> ... I like the quote and would like to find the correct attribution
(and the
> exact quote, for that matter) ...
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> On 12/17/05, Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 00:00:09 +0100, Enric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > > For now we are human beings that produce and consume media through
> > > tools. Have to wait for nanotechnology and genetical
capabilities to
> > > be media.
> >
> > Since I managed to bring up McLuhan in the video conference today: We
> > don't consume media. Media are extension of ourselves (that's why
that one
> > book is titled "understanding media - the extensions of man").
> >
> > I'll go to bed now. I'm not even that much of a McLuhan fan (sorry,
> > Schlomo!)
> >
> > - Andreas
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> Richard
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