Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a …
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“... the huge business of education is not on speaking terms with culture and such culture as we now have is not on speaking terms with reality.”
A Testament (1957)
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