workers did more and better work. Whether the heat and light 
and leisure were arranged adversely or pleasantly, the 
quantity and quality of output improved. The testers gloomily 
concluded that testing distorted the evidence. They missed the 
all-important fact that when the workers are permitted to join 
their energies to a process of learning and discovery, the 
increased efficiency is phenomenal.

    Earlier it was mentioned how the school drop-out situation will 
get very much worse because of the frustration of the student 
need for participation in the learning process. This situation 
concerns also the problem of “the culturally disadvantaged 
child.” This child exists not only in the slums but increasingly in 
the suburbs of the upper-income homes. The culturally 
disadvantaged child is the TV child. For TV has provided a new 
environment of low visual orientation and high involvement