Mirror/visual simulation of classroom conditions is 
the last thing that television should be used for, 
and it is mainly being used to simulate classroom 
conditions of the old-fashioned type. This is like 
dealing with the motorcar as if it were a horseless 
carriage and still trying to imagine the horses. In the 
first motorcars there were places for buggy whips 
and various other equipment. We are dealing with 
the new classroom, the TV classroom, leaving all 
room for the vanished horse. The current uses of 
television are to simulate the old-fashioned 
classroom. Not to explore television but to make it 
simulate something that was done earlier, before 
television. Naturally therefore there’s a huge