Marshall McLuhan Quotes

Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.

There is so much we can learn from TV. It's a window on the world.

I think every day you try to soak up as much as you can to learn and understand things better.

You can only learn by opening yourself up to engage with different sources of information. How can you learn something if you never see it, read it, or hear it?

Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.

To be able to be caught up into the world of thought - that is being educated.

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

The more one reads, the more one sees that one has to read.

Entertainment that is fact-based is, I think, where people really learn the most, because they're leaning in, their curiosity is stimulated and they're being entertained.

Television was essentially my college.

I like to read and understand.

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

I love researching. That's one of my favorite parts about school.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes.

Games shouldn't only be fun. They should teach or spark an interest in other things.

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books.

The more you learn, if you learn it properly, the more clear you become and the more you know.

I think you never stop learning.

My sincere hope is that 'The Da Vinci Code,' in addition to entertaining people, will serve as an open door to begin their own explorations.

Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.