Understanding McLuhan/Understanding McLuhan (1996)(Voyager)[Mac-PC].iso/pc/mcluhan.dxr/08533_Field_TCGG T298.txt

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     home, and beyond the influence of the family circle. By its
     nature a nursery rhyme is a jingle preserved and
     propagated not by children but by adults, and in this
     sense it is an ‘adult’ rhyme. It is a rhyme which is adult
     approved. The schoolchild’s verses are not intended for
     adult ears. In fact part of their fun is the thought, usually
     correct, that adults know nothing about them. Grown-
     ups have outgrown the schoolchild’s lore. If made aware
     of it they tend to deride it; and they actively seek to
     suppress its livelier manifestations. Certainly they do
     nothing to encourage it. And the folklorist and
     anthropologist can, without travelling a mile from his
     door, examine a thriving unselfconscious culture (the
     word ‘culture’ is used here deliberately) which is as
     unnoticed by the sophisticated world, and quite as little
     affected by it, as is the culture of some dwindling