Isolation In Education

“…Thamus believed proper instruction and real knowledge must be communicated. Print stresses individualized learning, competition, and personal autonomy. Over four centuries, teachers, while emphasizing print, have allowed orality its place in the classroom, and have therefore achieved a kind of pedagogical peace between these two forms of learning, so that what is valuable in each can be maximized. Now comes the computer, carrying anew the banner of private learning and individual problem-solving. Will the widespread use of computers in the classroom defeat once and for all the claims of communal speech? Will the computer raise egocentrism to the status of a virtue?”(6) Throughout this chapter, the author introduces the idea of isolation …show more content…
There are different ways of expressing the interesting implications of this fact. Harold Innis, the father of modern communication studies, repeatedly spoke of the “knowledge monopolies” created by important technologies. He meant precisely what Thamus had in mind: those who have control over the workings of a particular technology accumulate power and inevitably form a kind of conspiracy against those who have no access to the specialized knowledge made available by the technology“ …show more content…
For example, the clock was invented by monks for prayer and work regulation with no intention for the device to be used to regulate humanity. The clock today rules over society’s daily life; forcing people to rush and cut back on sleep. This was not the original intent of the clock and yet it is a major staple in modern life. This is then the danger that technology poses to society. The intention of the clock was not to shape humanity but yet it did so through societal changes. Technology has the ability to become bigger than the creators and shape human history. Humanity has the ability to lose control over our creations; therefore technology is a huge threat to mankind. For example, Albert Einstein’s biggest regret was his theories that led to the creation of the atomic bomb. His intention was never to create a weapon of that force to be used to against humanity. However, once the bomb had been created there was way of destroying this knowledge. The scientific breakthrough he unlocked became bigger than himself leading the bombings in Japan. The creation of the atomic bomb has put a massive fear and power into humanities hand that should not