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John M. Culkin Quotes

1928–1993 United States

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.

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We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us.

I don't think baseball could survive without all the statistical appurtenances involved in calculating pitching, hitting and fielding percentages. Some people could do without the games as long as they got the box scores.

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.

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