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Generating and passing on knowledge is the principal feature setting man apart from animals. Development grows with economic level. Accidental discovery initially - developing into the experimental method and computer. "Passed on" by Bards, ritual, craft guilds, teachers and schools to publishing and the mass media. Several defining impacts: Government funding problems (impacts state education), New World Trading Patterns (to knowledge intensive work), Automation (when will the teacher be automated out?), Media developments - right into our homes.

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