Is it possible to create a maintain a true culture, a strong and flourishing culture, through the medium of pictoral and oral apparatus? - Georges Duhamel

What a teacher imparts by word of mouth is nothing in comparison with what he teaches us to get for ourselves from books.

One of my friends whom I hold in high esteem admitted to me the other day that when he wants to work nowadays … he has to turn on his radio. The droning of the loudspeaker—so he says—puts him in a favorable frame of mind and ideas pour out. I cannot help but thinking that this is not the act of a true musician. For thought has a rhythm of its own, which must either clash with the rhythm from outside and lose energy, or else submit to the outer impulse in restless slavery.

Scènes de la vie future (1930), p. 52