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To: Discoshaman
The Kindle and Nook may make for not only the most important advance in reading since Gutenberg, but also, quite likely, a major lesson in unintended consequences.

Kindle and Nook? You'll have to go back a bit further to find your Gutenburg-sized "advance."

And as for the prospect of a "world without teachers," -- the government employee type -- we can only hope.

3 posted on 12/26/2011 8:26:58 AM PST by the invisib1e hand (Ignorance is no excuse.)
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To: the invisib1e hand

Parents should seek out every opportunity available to them to keep their children out of the clutches of the public school system.


10 posted on 12/26/2011 8:34:30 AM PST by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: the invisib1e hand; Discoshaman

Discoshaman, basically I’m with you all the way. I just
have a tendency to see the “downside” ... Imagine. ....
Imagine all homeschoolers being required to carry e-readers
with tracking capacity. Imagine, as has been reported
already, remote erasure of e-books that aren’t approved
by the authorities. ... Yes, the end, the end of public
so-called education is so palpably close it can be
dizzying. But let’s be wary of the endgame. They won’ t
want to be superseded.


104 posted on 12/27/2011 9:42:42 PM PST by cycjec
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