Quotation series: Knowles and organizations

This passage refers to Malcolm Knowles’ views on organizations and their roles (or effects) on adult learning:

“As if by some law of reciprocity, … organization provides an environment for adult education. In the spirit of Marshall McLuhan’s The Medium Is the Message, the quality of learning that takes place in an organization is affected by the kind of organization it is. This is to say that an organization is not simply an instrumentality for providing organized learning activities to adults; it also provides an environment that either facilitates or inhibits learning.”

• Knowles, M. S. (1980). The Modern Practice of Adult Education: From Pedagogy to Andragogy. Englewood Cliffs: Cambridge. Pg. 66.