| It didn't start out the way, it is and has been for more then
a century, the process we call education, that has been going on since the beginning
of our presence on this planet. But for several civilisations and for our own, the
big change came with the advent of the conversion of thoughts to words and then to
marks that could be translated by others back to words and then back to thoughts.
The need to be able to read and write altered education and moved it from those who
whom the role of model and teacher had fallen upon, to those trained and designated
as expert teachers. The cost to produce this specialised form of instruction was
high and to accomplish learning to write and read took almost all the energy available
to each individual. The consuming realisation by society that a short lifetime can
accumulate only so much knowledge and skill, can be vastly extended and enhanced
by absorbing the knowledge and experience of generations who have recorded their
lessons of life in print. |
