Understanding McLuhan/Understanding McLuhan (1996)(Voyager)[Mac-PC].iso/pc/mcluhan.dxr/01676_Field_OMFU T30.txt

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cabinet, antiquarian-approach to learning. And he
wanted to challenge the idea that you can be
learned and know nothing about your own time,
and ignore your own time. He didn’t like that idea. I
think it’s absolutely a perfectly valid idea—it’s not
for me—but I think it’s a perfectly valid idea that’s
been practiced many times throughout history
with great profit by various people. But he thought
that had to be challenging, and he felt a lot of
people in university were locked into ancient ways
of thinking.


Q:  Last question: McLuhan’s gone in and out of