single position. The tactual mode of perceiving is sudden but 
not specialist. It is total, synaesthetic, involving all the senses. 
Pervaded by the mosaic TV image, the TV child encounters the 
world in a spirit antithetic to literacy.

     The TV image, that is to say, even more than the icon, is 
an extension of the sense of touch. Where it encounters a 
literate culture, it necessarily thickens the sense-mix, 
transforming fragmented and specialist extensions into a 
seamless web of experience. Such transformation is, of course, 
a “disaster” for a literate, specialist culture. It blurs many 
cherished attitudes and procedures. It dims the efficacy of the 
basic pedagogic techniques, and the relevance of the 
curriculum. If for no other reason, it would be well to 
understand the dynamic life of these forms as they intrude 
upon us and upon one another. TV makes for myopia.