power of creating a new hypnotic superstition of the book as 
independent of and uncontaminated by human agency. Nobody 
who had read manuscripts could achieve this state of mind 
concerning the nature of the written word. But the assumption 
of homogeneous repeatability derived from the printed page, 
when extended to all the other concerns of life, led gradually to 
all those forms of production and social organization from 
which the Western world derives many satisfactions and nearly 
all of its characteristic traits.

Peter Ramus and John Dewey were the two educational 
surfers or wave-riders of antithetic periods, the Gutenberg and 
the Marconi or electronic.

*     In our time John Dewey worked to restore education to 
its primitive, pre-print phase. He wanted to get the student out