Pre-school--->graduate school on web-tivo

[John Gelles]

1.We know we need an open school (no copyrights)
to present material to students for learning that will
equip them for altruistic citizenship and effective
production of the necessities of life and protection
of the virtues and joys of life.

2. Production of the courses (and indices and related
search and retrieval schemes for the courses) should
be on-going projects ate leading world universities.

3. Distribution of the course by internet and other
communications and delivery systems is both a
national responsibility and a commercial one.

There is no need to perfect or optimize this
function: redundancy and inefficiency should be
expected as the price of avoiding intellectual
tyranny.

But government subsidies should be
welcomed in the interest of raising the com-
petency of people the world ever--especially
where people cannot financially afford to
receive such learning opportunities without
subsidies.

4. Within the homes and inside the book-bags of
learners we may hope to see learning machines
that can store a great deal of material at any time,
and can be refreshed and updated efficiently, so
that complicated models offered by such courses
can be learned by all students from the least
talented to the most.

5. To a degree, what is suggested above is being
developed and sold to people today as pure
entertainment to "fry" our brains with porn,
gambling, and escapist material.

We will have to work our collective ass off
to bend some of this development into respon-
sible channels.

We do not have forever to bring an end to war
and to rivalries that take our eye off the main
chance to prevent science, industry or nature
from doing us collectively in.

John Gelles