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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