The computer in education is in a very tentative state but it does represent basically speeded up access to information and when it is applied to the telephone and to Xerox it permits access to the libraries of the world, almost immediately, without delay. And so the immediate effect of the computer is to pull up the walls of the subjects and divisions of knowledge in favor of over-all field, total awareness–Gestalt.
“The New Education”, in The Basilian Teacher, Vol 7, No. 2, February, (1967), p 67
Year: 1967
Chapter:
Education
Compiled by William Kuhns
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