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Mirror/visual simulation of classroom conditions is
the last thing that television should be used for,
and it is mainly being used to simulate classroom
conditions of the old-fashioned type. This is like
dealing with the motorcar as if it were a horseless
carriage and still trying to imagine the horses. In the
first motorcars there were places for buggy whips
and various other equipment. We are dealing with
the new classroom, the TV classroom, leaving all
room for the vanished horse. The current uses of
television are to simulate the old-fashioned
classroom. Not to explore television but to make it
simulate something that was done earlier, before
television. Naturally therefore there’s a huge