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     Without  adequate  and  reliable  information  it  is
impossible to engage in wise decisions and action so as to
be helpful in political action.  In previous eras the lack
of  adequate and reliable information was  a major bottle-
neck in solving real problems. Those who experienced their
childhood  in such an era recorded the message that it  is
good  to gather information.  Now that they are engaged in
political  action,   they  are  directing  scarce   public
resources  to the development of systems of techniques for
the acquisition,  storage, retrieval,  and processing of a
flood   of   information.     Varieties  of  channels   of
communication and systems of ensymbolment are used.    Too
infrequently is there authentic meeting.  The primary word
'I-Thou'   is  not  spoken.   There  is  little  effective
incarnation.    Information processing  (rather than  real
problem  solving  which  touch real  persons) becomes  the
ultimate concern of technocrats.  Such is idolatry.

     Information  dissemination    has become  a  dominant
focus of educational systems.  Varieties of techniques are
devised to  maximize the amount of information poured into
students.   These involve students modifying the nature of
real students,  so that they will absorb a larger fraction
of the authoritatively selected information.

     Via  much television children learn to play a passive
role in information reception.   Television does not  have
the  power of engaging real  students  in  the dialogue of
authentic  personal  meetings  with  reciprocal  affective
perceptions.  In  the  absence  of parents who are free to
enter  into  dialogue regarding scientific perceptions  of
the nature of reality, television serves as the channel of
communication of authoritarian  perceptions  of the nature
of  reality.   Because  of  the nature of the  channel  of
communication, authoritarian perceptions are communicated;
but  dialogue and education (educmement)   are  impossible
because of  the nature  of  the  channel of communication.
Information  may  be  transmitted. Incarnations can not be
transmitted via dialogue through one way television.

     Education  is not the acquisition of information  and
skills. Education is the process of the growth of the self
as  a  real student,  a  real person.   Education  is  the
process   of  incarnation.   It  can  not  be  reduced  to
techniques.    It  can  be  reduced  by   techniques   and
preoccupations with techniques.

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