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‘Many many millions of years ago,’ according to The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, ‘a race of hyperintelligent pandimensional beings … got so fed up with the constant bickering about the meaning of life … that they decided to sit down and solve the problem once and for all. And to this end they built themselves a stupendous super computer.’ When it was finally completed the two chosen programmers, Lunkwill and Fook, approached it.
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Douglas Adams, The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Pan Books, London, 1979), pp. 125, 128.
See below, p. 12.
R. S. Peters, Education as Initiation (Evans, London, 1964) pp. 11, 15, 25, 30. Professor Peters’ account of the concept of education was developed further in his Ethics and Education (George Alan and Unwin, London, 1966), Part I and ‘Education and the Educated Man’, in R. F. Dearden, P. H. Hirst and R. S. Peters (eds), Education and the Development of Reason (Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1972).
To allow for e.g. postal teaching, teaching interactions might be better described as person-to-person rather than as face-to-face.
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Langford, G. (1985). Introduction. In: Education, Persons and Society. Modern Introductions to Philosophy. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17860-5_1
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