““As we're told that 10 percent of all high school education will be computer-based by 2014 and rise to 50 percent by 2019, and as the PowerPoint throws up aphoristic bromides by the corporate heroes of the digitally driven 'global economy' -- the implication being that 'great companies' know what they're doing, while most schools don't -- and as we're goaded mercilessly to the conclusion that everything we are, know, and do is bound for the dustbin of history, I want to ask what kind of schooling Bill Gates and Steve Jobs had. Wasn't it at bottom the very sort of book-based, content-driven education that we declare obsolete in the name of their achievements?””
![“I tried to look at where did the kind of learning we do in schools, where did it come from? . . . It came from . . . the last and the biggest of the empires on this planet, [the British Empire]. What they did was amazing. They created a global computer made up of people. It’s still with us today…” quote by Erik Brynjolfsson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/747/erik-brynjolfsson-9007_british-empire_i-tried-to-look-at-where-did-the-kind-of_2038347.jpg)
![“Our advertising and even our arts convey the idea that we [Americans] as a society are brash, irreverent, and free of all constraint, when the best available evidence would suggest that we are in fact tame, spayed, and easily brought to heel.” quote by Garret Keizer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c7e/garret-keizer-34804_art_our-advertising-and-even-our-arts-convey_2679349.jpg)
