Ed. was born with the rise of mass compulsory schooling. ... So why was mass compulsory schooling introduced in 1875 in South Australia? ... (Postman 1993) If television threatened schooling as we know it then how much more do computers, information technology and the Internet affect the future prospects of schooling? ... Postman (1993) points out that these children are not stupid but the victims of the media war that rages in the nineties. Delors (1996) suggests that it is the responsibility teachers to teach students how to decode and analyse the media. ...

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