“Entertainment and learning are not opposites; entertainment may be the most effective mode of learning.”

— Herbert Marcuse , book One-Dimensional Man

Source: One-Dimensional Man (1964), pp. 66-67

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German philosopher, sociologist, and political theorist 1898–1979

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