“The metropolis today is a classroom; the ads are its teachers. The traditional classroom is an obsolete detention home, a feudal dungeon.”

—  Marshall McLuhan

Source: 1960s, Counterblast (1969), p. 12

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Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor … 1911–1980

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