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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