When you move into a new area, a new territory and learn a new language, the language is not a new subject, it is an environment, it is total. (p. 105) (Marshall McLuhan)

When you move into a new area, a new territory and learn a new language, the language is not a new subject, it is an environment, it is total. (p. 105)

Marshall McLuhan

Related topics

area environment language learn move subject territory total

Related quotes

The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses on you has to prove its importance before it makes you move. View quote
Max Lerner
Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they're not attracting attention with it, hotheadedness isn't. View quote
Harper Lee
Language does for intelligence what the wheel does for the feet and the body. It enables them to move from thing to thing with greater ease and speed and ever less involvement. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything! View quote
Maria Montessori
We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God. View quote
Martha Graham