But is it not this very shift in our society which makes the young so resentful of an educational establishment in which they are consumers only? They live with a technology which insists that they be co-producers in the very act of learning. They experience only a negative motivation with regard to a curriculum which ignores the undeveloped countries of our minds and which looks on the new media as the source not only of culture but of trash.
“Our New Electronic Culture: The Role of Communications in Meeting Today’s Problems”, in NAEB Journal, October, 1958, p 25
Year: 1958
Chapter:
Education
Compiled by William Kuhns
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