They are now an under-developed country that have to be brought into the picture. It means educationally, of course, that our whole system of grading is useless in the schools. Because if you live in a community where the information levels are very high - just in the sense of the amount of data moving on the radio and TV and movies and so on - then the idea that you should use your school system as a means of eliminating half or three quarters of the community from higher education is ludicrous.
“Electronics & the psychic drop-out”, in This Magazine is about Schools, April, 1966, p 39
Year: 1966
Chapter:
Education
Compiled by William Kuhns
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