[MTC Global] Education Automation--Freeing the Scholar to Return to His Studies

ANOTHER RELEVANT QUOTE BY BUCKMINISTER FULLER

In spring 1961, the American architect Buckminster Fuller told a group of Southern Illinois University administrators that a new campus they were planning would soon be obsolete. He informed them that classroom learning was finished. Instead, students would gain knowledge through "an intercontinentally networked documentaries call-up system, operative over any home two-way TV set". All the world's great ideas would become freely accessible to anyone anywhere, instantaneously elucidated by the world's foremost educators. And he predicted that forward-thinking universities stood to benefit because educational automation was "the upcoming major world industry".

In April 1961, Richard Buckminster Fuller, one of the great renaissance figures of the twentieth century, addressed a gathering of pedagogues in a small university town in the US Midwest. Titled 'Education Automation: Freeing the Scholar to Return to His Studies', this lecture remains one of the seminal expositions on the future of education. In a piece dense with insight, there is one passage that is especially prophetic:

"Real education, however, will be something to which individuals will discipline themselves spontaneously under the stimulus of their own ticker tapes — their individually unique chromosomes. All people have their own chromosomal patterns. No two persons have the same appetite at the same time. There is no reason why they should. There is no reason why everyone should be interested in the geography of Venezuela on the same day and hour unless there is some "news" event there, such as a revolution. However, most of us are going to be interested in the geography of Venezuela at some time — our own time — but not all on the same day. Simultaneous curricula are obsolete. We must make all the information immediately available over the two way TVs ready for the different individual human chromosomal ticker-tapes to call for it"

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