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Fr. John M. Culkin SJ

The famous adjacent quote — *"We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us"* — is not McLuhan's.. It was written by his Jesuit friend Fr. John M. Culkin SJ in "A Schoolman's Guide to Marshall McLuhan," *Saturday Review*, 18 March 1967, p. 70.2.

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The famous adjacent quote — *"We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us"* — is not McLuhan's.

It was written by his Jesuit friend Fr. John M. Culkin SJ in "A Schoolman's Guide to Marshall McLuhan," *Saturday Review*, 18 March 1967, p. 70.

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“It was written by his Jesuit friend Fr. John M. Culkin SJ in "A Schoolman's Guide to Marshall McLuhan," *Saturday Review*, 18 March 1967, p. 70.”
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publication of A Schoolman's Guide to Marshall McLuhan