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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