Between The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962) and Understanding Media (1964), Marshall McLuhan wrote a short piece on education which was, as usual, a vehicle for him to demonstrate novel linguistic forms to perturb and unsettle the settled modes of thought of readers.
Give this introductory paragraph a quick go, and see if you can parse his meaning:
…I wonder whether Jerome Bruner, during the writing of his fine book on The Process of Education, ever asked himself why there has come the sudden acceptance of the “structural” approach in all fields today. Am I really asking him whether he had any structural awareness of the new relevance of the structural approach? Had he also asked himself the causes and origins of the nonstructural approach to life and learning which had dominated the Western world in recent centuries? Since American institutions
