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century administrator they would have been asked to find out
whether the new teaching machine, the printed book, could do
the full educational job. Could a portable, private instrument
like the new book take the place of the book one made by hand
and memorized as one made it? Could a book which could be
read quickly and even silently take the place of a book read
slowly aloud? Could students trained by such printed books
measure up to the skilled orators and disputants produced by
manuscript means? Using the methods the testers now use for
radio, film, and TV, our testers would have reported in due
course: “Yes, strange and repugnant as it may sound to you,
the new teaching machines enable students to learn as much
as before. Moreover, they seem to have more confidence in the
new method as giving them the means of acquiring many new
kinds of knowledge.”