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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://mastodon.online/users/parismarx/statuses/112542655407256680">Paris Marx (parismarx@mastodon.online)'s status on Sunday, 02-Jun-2024 03:00:51 JST</a><a href="https://mastodon.online/@parismarx" title="parismarx@mastodon.online"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/36581-48-20231214040145.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Paris Marx" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Paris Marx</a></section><article><p>In 1922, Thomas Edison predicted motion pictures would “revolutionize our educational system.”</p><p>I can’t get over how Muskian he sounds (particularly on “efficiency” claims) and how — a hundred years later — we still haven’t learned not to fall for this kind of tech boosterism.</p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/04/books/chapters/the-flickering-mind.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/04/books/chapters/the-flickering-mind.html</a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/tech" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/education" rel="tag">#education</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/film" rel="tag">#film</a></p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/3178758#notice-6283833">In conversation</a><time datetime="2024-06-02T03:00:51+09:00" title="Sunday, 02-Jun-2024 03:00:51 JST">about 6 months ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://mastodon.online/@parismarx/112542655407256680" rel="external" title="Sent from mastodon.online via ActivityPub">mastodon.online</a></span></span><a href="https://mastodon.online/@parismarx/112542655407256680">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/2722951">"I believe that the motion picture is destined to revolutionize our educational system," Thomas Edison said in 1922, "and that in a few years it will supplant largely, if not entirely, the use of textbooks. I should say that on the average we get only about two percent efficiency out of textbooks as they are written today." A decade earlier, Edison had been even more pedagogically expansive, saying that film makes it "possible to touch every branch of human knowledge." Now he added: "The education of the future, as I see it, will be conducted through the medium of the motion picture, a visualized education, where it should be possible to obtain one hundred percent efficiency." Three years later, Edison's vision was undiluted: "In ten years textbooks as the principal medium of teaching will be as obsolete as the horse and carriage are now.... There is no limitation to the camera."</a></label><br><a href="https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/112/542/649/513/133/537/original/f5894966edae47cc.png" rel="external">https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/112/542/649/513/133/537/original/f5894966edae47cc.png</a></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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Paris Marx (parismarx@mastodon.online)'s status on Sunday, 02-Jun-2024 03:00:51 JST Paris Marx
In 1922, Thomas Edison predicted motion pictures would “revolutionize our educational system.”
I can’t get over how Muskian he sounds (particularly on “efficiency” claims) and how — a hundred years later — we still haven’t learned not to fall for this kind of tech boosterism.
https://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/04/books/chapters/the-flickering-mind.html
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1. "I believe that the motion picture is destined to revolutionize our educational system," Thomas Edison said in 1922, "and that in a few years it will supplant largely, if not entirely, the use of textbooks. I should say that on the average we get only about two percent efficiency out of textbooks as they are written today." A decade earlier, Edison had been even more pedagogically expansive, saying that film makes it "possible to touch every branch of human knowledge." Now he added: "The education of the future, as I see it, will be conducted through the medium of the motion picture, a visualized education, where it should be possible to obtain one hundred percent efficiency." Three years later, Edison's vision was undiluted: "In ten years textbooks as the principal medium of teaching will be as obsolete as the horse and carriage are now.... There is no limitation to the camera."
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