Print simply wiped out the main modes of oral education that had… — “What Fundamental Changes Are Foreshadowed In The Prevailing Patterns Of Educational Organization And Methods Of Instruction By The Revolution In Electronics?”, paper presented to Discussion Group 16 at the Fourteenth National Conference on Higher Education, March 3, 1959, p 2

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Print simply wiped out the main modes of oral education that had been devised in the Greco-Roman world and transmitted with the phonetic alphabet and the manuscript throughout the medieval period. And it ended that 2500-year pattern in a few decades.

“What Fundamental Changes Are Foreshadowed In The Prevailing Patterns Of Educational Organization And Methods Of Instruction By The Revolution In Electronics?”, paper presented to Discussion Group 16 at the Fourteenth National Conference on Higher Education, March 3, 1959, p 2

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Year: 1959

Chapter: Print