John M. Culkin

John M. Culkin, Jr. (June 21, 1928 – July 23, 1993) was an American academic and former priest who was a leading media scholar and critic, educator, writer and consultant.

Quotes

• So trying to keep certain things off television or out of books is futile. That same energy should be applied to helping children develop their own capacities for judgment, taste and sensitivity, so that they know how to make decisions that are based, we hope, on positive values.
  • “In Conversation with John Culkin,” Maria P. Robbins, Television and Children Journal, Summer, 1981.

• We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us.
  • McLuhan Galaxy (April 1, 2013)