Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesnt know the first thing about either. – Marshall McLuhan
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
Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it. – Marshall McLuhan
If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrists couch. – Marshall McLuhan
I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and its better than college. People should educate themselves – you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and Id written a thousand stories. – Ray Bradbury