reason, teachers are already the largest employee group in the 
U.S. economy, and may well become the only  group.

     The very same process of automation that causes a 
withdrawal of the present work force from industry causes 
learning itself to become the principal kind of production and 
consumption. Hence the folly of alarm about unemployment. 
Paid learning is already becoming both the dominant 
employment and the source of new wealth in our society. This 
is the new role  for men in society, whereas the older 
mechanistic idea of “jobs,” or fragmented tasks and specialist 
slots for “workers,” becomes meaningless under automation.

     It has often been said by engineers that, as information 
levels rise, almost any sort of material can be adapted to any 
sort of use. This principle is the key to the understanding of