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                                                                    Exhibit 10.2

                               SECURITY AGREEMENT

         This SECURITY AGREEMENT is entered into as of November 12, 1999 between
EDISON SCHOOLS INC., a Delaware corporation (hereinafter, together with its
successors in title and assigns, called the "BORROWER"), and IMPERIAL BANK, a
bank organized under the laws of the State of California (hereinafter, together
with its successors in title and assigns, called the "BANK").

                                    RECITALS

         Pursuant to the Revolving Credit Agreement, dated as of November 12,
1999 (as amended, supplemented, amended and restated or otherwise modified from
time to time, the "CREDIT AGREEMENT"), between the Borrower and the Bank, the
Bank has extended commitments to make Credit Extensions to the Borrower.

         It is a condition precedent to the making of Credit Extensions to the
Borrower that the Borrower shall execute and deliver to the Bank a security
agreement in or substantially in the form hereof.

         Accordingly, the parties hereto agree as follows:

                                    ARTICLE I

                                   DEFINITIONS

         SECTION 1.1. CERTAIN TERMS. The following terms when used in this
Agreement, including the introductory paragraph and Recitals hereto, shall,
except where the context otherwise requires, have the following meanings:

         "ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE" is defined in the Credit Agreement.

         "AGREEMENT" means this Security Agreement, as amended, supplemented or
otherwise modified from time to time.

         "BANK" is defined in the introductory paragraph hereto.

         "BORROWER" is defined in the introductory paragraph hereto.

         "CAPITAL STOCK" is defined in the Credit Agreement.

         "COLLATERAL" is defined in the Credit Agreement.

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         "COMPUTER HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE COLLATERAL" means, in relation to the
Borrower, all of the following Property of the Borrower, whether currently
existing or hereafter created, arising or acquired:

                  (a) all computer and other electronic data processing
         hardware, integrated computer systems, central processing units, memory
         units, display terminals, printers, features, computer elements, card
         readers, tape drives, hard and soft disk drives, cables, electrical
         supply hardware, generators, power equalizers, accessories and all
         peripheral devices and other related computer hardware;

                  (b) all software programs (including both source code, object
         code and all related applications and data files), whether now owned,
         licensed or leased or hereafter acquired or created by the Borrower,
         whether or not intended or designed for use on the computers and
         electronic data processing hardware described in clause (a);

                  (c) all firmware associated therewith;

                  (d) all documentation (including flow charts, logic diagrams,
         manuals, guides and specifications) with respect to such hardware,
         software and firmware described in clauses (a) through (c);

                  (e) all rights of the Borrower with respect to any of the
         foregoing, including, without limitation, any and all Copyrights,
         licenses, options, warranties, service contracts, program services,
         test rights, maintenance rights, support rights, improvement rights,
         renewal rights and indemnifications and any substitutions,
         replacements, additions or model conversions of any of the foregoing;
         and

                  (f) all products, royalties and proceeds of or from any of the
         foregoing.

         "COPYRIGHT COLLATERAL" means, collectively, all copyrights of the
Borrower, whether statutory or common law, registered or unregistered, now or
hereafter in force throughout the world, including, without limitation, all of
the Borrower's right, title and interest in and to all copyrights registered in
the United States Copyright Office or anywhere else in the world and also
including, without limitation, all (if any) registered United States copyrights
referred to in Item D of Exhibit A (all of the foregoing being collectively
called "COPYRIGHTS"), and all applications for registration thereof, whether
pending or in preparation, all copyright licenses (to the extent such licenses
do not prohibit the Borrower from granting a security interest in its rights
thereunder), including each (if any) copyright license referred to in Item E of
Exhibit A, all rights corresponding thereto throughout the world, all extensions
and renewals of any thereof, the right to sue for past, present and future
infringements of any thereof, and all proceeds of the foregoing, including,
without limitation, licenses, royalties, income, payments, claims, damages and
proceeds of suit.

         "CONTRACT RIGHTS" is defined in clause (b) of Section 2.1.
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         "CREDIT AGREEMENT" is defined in the first paragraph of the Recitals
hereto.

         "DEBT SECURITIES" means, collectively, promissory notes, bonds,
debentures and other Instruments evidencing, governing or securing any
Indebtedness of any kind, whether secured or unsecured, convertible,
subordinated or otherwise, and, in general, any Instruments commonly known as
"debt securities".

         "DISTRIBUTIONS" means, collectively, dividends in the form of Capital
Stock or in the form of other Equity Interests, shares of Capital Stock and
other Equity Interests resulting from stock splits, combinations,
reclassifications, mergers or consolidations, non-cash dividends, and other
non-cash dividends or distributions (whether similar or dissimilar to the
foregoing), (in each case) on or with respect to Equity Interests, but shall not
mean Dividends.

         "DIVIDENDS" means, collectively, cash dividends and other cash
distributions on or with respect to Capital Stock or other Equity Interests.

         "EQUIPMENT" is defined in clause (e) of Section 2.1

         "EQUITY INTERESTS" means Capital Stock and all warrants, options or
other rights to purchase, subscribe for or otherwise acquire Capital Stock (but
excluding any Debt Securities that are convertible into, or exchangeable for,
Capital Stock or other Equity Interests).

         "EXCLUDED PROPERTY" is defined in clause (b) of Section 2.2.

         "INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY COLLATERAL" means, collectively, in relation to
the Borrower, all of the Borrower's Computer Hardware and Software Collateral,
Copyright Collateral, Patent Collateral, Trade Secrets Collateral and Trademark
Collateral.

         "INVENTORY" is defined in clause (a) of Section 2.1.

         "OBLIGATIONS" is defined in the Credit Agreement.

         "PATENT COLLATERAL" means, in relation to the Borrower, all of the
following Property of the Borrower, whether currently existing or hereafter
created, arising or acquired:

                           (i) all patents and applications for patents
                  throughout the world;

                           (ii) all patent licenses and other agreements
                  providing the Borrower with the right to use patented
                  technology;

                           (iii) all reissues, divisions, continuations,
                  extensions, renewals, continuations-in-part and reexaminations
                  of any of the items described in the foregoing clauses (i) and
                  (ii); and
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                           (iv) all proceeds and royalties of, and rights
                  associated with, the foregoing (including license royalties
                  and proceeds of infringement suits), the right to sue third
                  parties for past, present or future infringements of any
                  patent or patent application or for breach or enforcement of
                  any patent or patent license agreement or other similar
                  agreement providing the Borrower with a right to use patented
                  technology.

         "PLEDGED COLLATERAL" is defined in clause (d) of Section 2.1.

         "PLEDGED INTERESTS" is defined in clause (d) of Section 2.1.

         "PLEDGED NOTES" is defined in clause (d) of Section 2.1.

         "PLEDGED RIGHTS" is defined in clause (d) of Section 2.1.

         "PLEDGED SECURITIES" means, collectively, Pledged Interests, Pledged
Rights and Pledged Notes.

         "RELATED CONTRACTS" is defined in clause (b) of Section 2.1.

         "SECURITY AGREEMENT COLLATERAL" is defined in Section 2.1.

         "TRADEMARK COLLATERAL" means, in relation to the Borrower, all of the
following Property of the Borrower, whether currently existing or hereafter
created, arising or acquired:

                           (i) all trademarks, service marks, trade names,
                  corporate names, company names, business names, fictitious
                  business names, trade styles, logos, other source of business
                  identifiers, prints and labels on which any of the foregoing
                  have appeared or appear, designs and general intangibles of a
                  like nature (all of the foregoing items in this clause (i)
                  being collectively called "TRADEMARKS"), all registrations and
                  recordings thereof, and, in connection therewith, all
                  applications in the United States Patent and Trademark Office
                  or in any similar office or agency of the United States or any
                  state thereof, including all (if any) registrations and
                  applications for registration referred to in Item A and Item B
                  of Exhibit A, and in any event including all common law
                  trademarks and common law service marks, including the common
                  law marks referred to in Item C of Exhibit A;

                           (ii) all Trademark licenses and other agreements
                  providing the Borrower with rights to use Trademarks;

                           (iii) all reissues, extensions or renewals of any of
                  the items described in the foregoing clauses (i) and (ii);

                           (iv) all of the goodwill of the business connected
                  with the use of, and symbolized by the items described in,
                  clauses (i), (ii) and (iii); and
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                           (v) all royalties from and all proceeds of, and
                  rights associated with, the foregoing, including any claims by
                  the Borrower (and the right to sue thereunder) against third
                  parties for past, present or future infringement or dilution
                  of any Trademark, Trademark registration or Trademark license,
                  including any Trademark, Trademark registration, Trademark
                  license or trade name referred to in Item A, Item B or Item C
                  of Exhibit A, or for any injury to the goodwill associated
                  with any Trademark, Trademark registration, Trademark license
                  or trade name.

         "TRADE SECRETS COLLATERAL" means, in relation to the Borrower, all
common law and statutory trade secrets and all other confidential or proprietary
or useful information and all know-how obtained by or used in or contemplated at
any time for use in the business of the Borrower (all of the foregoing being
collectively called "TRADE SECRETS"), whether or not such Trade Secrets have
been reduced to a writing or other tangible form, and whether currently existing
or hereafter arising or acquired, including all documents and things embodying,
incorporating or referring in any way to such Trade Secrets, all Trade Secret
licenses, and including the right to sue for and to enjoin and to collect
damages for the actual or threatened misappropriation of any Trade Secret or for
the breach or enforcement of any such Trade Secret license.

         "U.C.C." means the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in the relevant
jurisdiction.

         SECTION 1.2. CREDIT AGREEMENT DEFINITIONS. Unless otherwise defined
herein or the context otherwise requires, terms used in this Agreement,
including the introductory paragraph and Recitals hereto, that are defined in
the Credit Agreement have the meanings given to such terms in the Credit
Agreement.

         SECTION 1.3. U.C.C. DEFINITIONS. Unless otherwise defined herein or the
context otherwise requires, terms for which meanings are provided in the U.C.C.
are used in this Agreement, including the introductory paragraph and Recitals
hereto, with such meanings.

         SECTION 1.4. GENERAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO DEFINITIONS. Terms for
which meanings are defined in this Agreement shall apply equally to the singular
and plural forms of the terms defined. Whenever the context may require, any
pronoun shall include the corresponding masculine, feminine and neuter forms.
The term "INCLUDING" means including, without limiting the generality of any
description preceding such term. Each reference herein to any Person shall
include a reference to such Person's permitted successors and assigns.
References to any Instrument in this Agreement refer to such Instrument as
originally executed or, if subsequently amended or supplemented from time to
time, as so amended or supplemented and in effect at the relevant time of
reference thereto.
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                                   ARTICLE II

                                SECURITY INTEREST

         SECTION 2.1. GRANT OF SECURITY INTEREST. The Borrower hereby pledges
and assigns as collateral to the Bank, for the benefit of the Bank, and hereby
grants to the Bank, for the benefit of the Bank, a continuing security interest
in and to, all of its right, title and interest in and to all of the following
Property, wheresoever located, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, created,
arising or existing (all of such Property being collectively called the
"SECURITY AGREEMENT COLLATERAL"):

                  (a) all of the Borrower's inventory in all of its forms,
         including:

                           (i) all inventory, merchandise, goods and other
                  personal Property which are held for sale or lease by the
                  Borrower, all raw materials, work in process, unfinished and
                  finished goods with respect thereto, and all materials used or
                  consumed in the manufacture or production thereof;

                           (ii) all goods in which the Borrower has an interest
                  in mass or a joint or other interest or right of any kind
                  (including goods in which the Borrower has an interest or
                  right as consignee); and

                           (iii) all goods which are returned to or repossessed
                  by the Borrower;

         together with, in each case, all accessions thereto and products and
         proceeds thereof and documents therefor (any and all such inventory,
         accessions, products, proceeds and documents described in this clause
         (a) being collectively called the "INVENTORY");

                  (b) all Accounts Receivable, accounts, contracts, contract
         rights, chattel paper, documents, copyrights, instruments, general
         intangibles, and other obligations and rights of the Borrower of any
         kind, whether or not arising out of or in connection with the sale or
         lease of goods or the rendering of services by the Borrower, including
         all of the following:

                           (i) all rights and interests of the Borrower under
                  each management contract, including, without limitation, each
                  educational management service contract, franchise agreement,
                  equipment lease or other lease, Real Estate Lease Agreement,
                  or any other similar agreement to which the Borrower is from
                  time to time a party;

                           (ii) all rights and interests of the Borrower under
                  each limited liability company operating agreement, limited
                  partnership agreement, partnership agreement, joint venture
                  agreement or other similar agreement to which the Borrower is
                  from time to time a party;
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                           (iii) all of the Borrower's Intellectual Property
                  Collateral, BUT NOT IN ANY EVENT ANY OF THE EXCLUDED PROPERTY;

                           (iv) all rights and remedies in and to all Security
                  Instruments, equipment leases or other leases, Real Estate
                  Lease Agreements and other Instruments securing or otherwise
                  relating to any such accounts, Accounts Receivable, contracts,
                  contract rights, chattel paper, documents, copyrights,
                  instruments, general intangibles, management contracts,
                  franchise agreements, lease and other agreements, or other
                  obligations; and

                           (v) all Instruments evidencing any of the foregoing
                  Accounts Receivable, accounts, contracts, contract rights,
                  chattel paper, documents, copyrights, instruments, general
                  intangibles, management contracts, franchise agreements, lease
                  and other agreements, or other obligations (all such
                  Instruments being collectively called the "RELATED
                  CONTRACTS");

         (any and all such accounts, Accounts Receivable, contracts, contract
         rights, chattel paper, documents, copyrights, instruments, general
         intangibles, management contracts, franchise agreements, lease and
         other agreements, Related Contracts, other obligations, and other
         Property described in this clause (b) being collectively called the
         "CONTRACT RIGHTS");

                  (c) all claims, demands, judgments, rights, choses in action,
         equities, credits, bank accounts, cash on hand and in banks, lock boxes
         and other post office boxes, insurance policies, including the cash
         surrender value thereof and all proceeds thereof, and all federal,
         state and local tax refunds and/or abatements to which the Borrower is
         or may from time to time become entitled, no matter how or when
         arising, including, but not limited to, any loss carryback tax refunds;

                  (d) all of the following Property of the Borrower, whether now
         owned or hereafter issued, created, acquired or existing (all of such
         Property being herein collectively called the "PLEDGED COLLATERAL"):

                           (i) all Capital Stock and other Equity Interests
                  (collectively, "PLEDGED Interests");

                           (ii) all Dividends and all Distributions;

                           (iii) all rights to receive profits and surplus of,
                  and other Dividends and Distributions (including income,
                  return of capital and liquidating distributions) from, any
                  partnership, joint venture, limited liability company or other
                  Person, including Distributions by any such Person to
                  partners, joint venturers or members, and including rights,
                  whether contractual or otherwise, under limited or general
                  partnership agreements, joint venture agreements, limited
                  liability company operating agreements, or as a limited
                  partner in a limited partnership, as a general partner in a
                  general partnership, as a joint
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                  venturer in a joint venture or as a member of a limited
                  liability company (all such rights being herein collectively
                  called "PLEDGED RIGHTS");

                           (iv) all Debt Securities of every description
                  (collectively, "PLEDGED NOTES");

                           (v) all investment property and investment securities
                  of every description; and

                           (vi) all other Property (including Dividends and
                  Distributions) that may from time to time be delivered or be
                  required to be delivered by the Borrower to the Bank for the
                  purpose of pledge hereunder;

                  (e) all of the Borrower's equipment in all of its forms
         (including all fixtures), and all substitutions therefor, replacements
         thereof and additions thereto, and all attachments, components, parts
         and accessories installed thereon or affixed thereto, including all
         computers and computer peripherals, all telephone and all other
         telecommunications equipment, all photoduplicating and photocopying
         equipment, and all office equipment of every description (any and all
         of the foregoing being collectively called the "EQUIPMENT"), BUT NOT IN
         ANY EVENT INCLUDING ANY OF THE EXCLUDED PROPERTY;


                  (f) all other Property of the Borrower of every kind and
         description (including all rights, permits and licenses of every kind
         and description), BUT NOT INCLUDING ANY EXCLUDED PROPERTY;

                  (g) all books, records, writings, data bases, information and
         other Property (OTHER THAN EXCLUDED PROPERTY) relating to, used or
         useful in connection with, evidencing, embodying, incorporating or
         referring to, any of the foregoing Security Agreement Collateral; and

                  (h) all products, royalties, rents, issues, profits, returns,
         dividends, distributions, income and proceeds of or rights with respect
         to any and all of the foregoing Security Agreement Collateral,
         including proceeds which constitute Property of the types described in
         clauses (a) through (g) and, to the extent not otherwise included, all
         payments under any indemnity, warranty or guaranty payable by reason of
         loss or damage to or otherwise with respect to any of the foregoing
         Security Agreement Collateral.

         SECTION 2.2. EXCLUDED PROPERTY. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the
terms "SECURITY AGREEMENT COLLATERAL" and "COMPUTER HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE
COLLATERAL" shall not include the following Property, and the Bank shall not
have any security interests in or Liens upon any of the following Property:
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                  (a) any Property which the Borrower and the Bank shall have
         agreed, in a writing signed by both parties identifying such Property,
         is not subject to the security interests and Liens created by the
         Borrower in favor of the Bank; and

                  (b) all of the Borrower's Equipment and other tangible
         personal Property (including other tangible personal Property that
         would otherwise constitute Computer Hardware or Software Collateral) in
         all of its forms from time to time (i) located or used, or otherwise
         intended to be located or used, in or at the location of any of the
         Schools from time to time operated, managed or administered by the
         Borrower, or (ii) in the possession or under the control of Persons who
         are students in any of such Schools, including, without limitation, in
         all of such cases, all fixtures, and also including all computers and
         computer peripherals, all telephone and other telecommunications
         Equipment, all photoduplicating and photocopying Equipment, and all
         office Equipment, in each case, if (and only if) such Property is
         located or used, or otherwise intended to be located or used, in or at
         the location of any Schools or is in the possession or under the
         control of Persons who are students in any of such Schools, and also
         including any and all present and future additions, parts, accessories,
         attachments, substitutions, repairs, improvements and replacements to
         or for any such Property, and any and all proceeds thereof, including,
         without limitation, proceeds of insurance, and all manuals, blueprints,
         know-how, warranties, and records in connection therewith, all rights
         against suppliers, warrantors, manufacturers, sellers or others in
         connection therewith, and together with all substitutes for any of the
         foregoing (any and all of the foregoing being herein collectively
         called the "EXCLUDED PROPERTY").

         Anything in the foregoing paragraph (b) of this Section 2.2 express or
implied to the contrary notwithstanding, any and all of the Borrower's Equipment
and other tangible personal Property located in or otherwise held in or by
warehouses and the like shall, at all times while so located or held, constitute
"SECURITY AGREEMENT COLLATERAL" for all purposes of this Agreement and the other
Loan Documents.

         SECTION 2.3. SECURITY FOR OBLIGATIONS. This Agreement (and the Security
Agreement Collateral) secures the prompt payment in full and performance when
due of all and each of the Obligations of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries
under the Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents. In addition, all
advances, charges, costs and expenses, including reasonable attorneys' fees,
incurred or paid by the Bank in exercising any right, power or remedy conferred
by this Agreement, or in the enforcement hereof, shall, to the extent lawful,
become a part of the Obligations secured hereby.

         SECTION 2.4. PLEDGE AND DELIVERY OF PLEDGED COLLATERAL. All
certificates or Instruments (other, in any case, than Dividends or any checks or
drafts received in the ordinary course of business) representing or evidencing
any Pledged Collateral to be delivered from time to time hereafter shall be:

                  (a) delivered to and held by or on behalf of the Bank pursuant
         hereto;
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                  (b)      in suitable form for transfer by delivery; and

                  (c) accompanied by all necessary Instruments of transfer or
         assignment (including, with respect to the Pledged Interests, undated
         stock powers), duly executed in blank, all in form and substance
         reasonably satisfactory to the Bank.

From and after the date hereof, the Borrower shall, promptly after its receipt
thereof, deliver or cause to be delivered to the Bank in pledge hereunder any
and all additional shares of Capital Stock of any issuer, and all other Pledged
Collateral (other than Dividends), issued, distributed or sold to, or purchased
or otherwise acquired by, the Borrower. Upon the formation by the Borrower of
any Subsidiary, the acquisition by the Borrower of or Investment by the Borrower
in any Person which as a result of such acquisition or investment becomes a
Subsidiary of the Borrower, or the receipt by the Borrower of any shares of
Capital Stock or other Equity Interests of any Subsidiary of the Borrower, the
Borrower shall, promptly after such formation, acquisition, Investment or
receipt, deliver or cause to be delivered to the Bank in pledge hereunder any
and all shares of Capital Stock of such Subsidiary and all other Pledged
Collateral (other, in any case, than Dividends or any checks or drafts received
in the ordinary course of business) issued, distributed or otherwise delivered
to, or acquired by, the Borrower in respect of or relating to such Capital Stock
or other Pledged Collateral. The Borrower shall take all other actions from time
to time requested by the Bank to grant to the Bank a perfected security interest
in all of the Pledged Collateral (subject only to such other Liens as shall from
time to time be permitted by the Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents).
Anything in this Agreement or any other Loan Documents express or implied to the
contrary notwithstanding, the Borrower shall not be required by this Agreement
or any other Loan Documents to deliver to the Bank hereunder any stock
certificates evidencing Equity Interests in Apex Online Learning Inc. or any
stock powers or other similar Instruments relating to such certificates.

         SECTION 2.5. BORROWER REMAINS LIABLE, ETC. Anything herein to the
contrary notwithstanding:

                  (a) the Borrower shall remain liable under all Instruments
         included in the Security Agreement Collateral to the extent set forth
         therein to perform all of its duties and obligations thereunder to the
         same extent as if this Agreement had not been executed;

                  (b) the exercise by the Bank of any rights hereunder shall not
         release the Borrower from any of its duties or obligations under any
         Instruments included in the Security Agreement Collateral;

                  (c) the Bank shall not have any obligation or liability under
         any Instruments included in the Security Agreement Collateral by reason
         of this Agreement, nor shall the Bank be obligated to perform any of
         the obligations or duties of the Borrower thereunder or to take any
         action to collect or enforce any claim for payment assigned hereunder;

                  (d) the Borrower has not delegated to or otherwise assigned to
         the Bank the performance of or the responsibility for the duties and
         obligations of the Borrower under
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         any of the educational management service contracts or other similar
         contracts to which the Borrower shall be from time to time a party; and

                  (e) the Bank shall not have any rights to delegate or
         otherwise assign to any Person or Persons the performance of or the
         responsibility for the duties and obligations of the Borrower under any
         of the educational management service contracts or other similar
         contracts to which the Borrower shall be from time to time a party.

         SECTION 2.6. SECURITY INTERESTS ABSOLUTE. All rights and security
interests of the Bank granted hereunder, and all obligations of the Borrower
hereunder, shall be absolute and unconditional irrespective of, and shall not be
impaired or affected by:

                  (a) any lack of validity or enforceability of the Credit
         Agreement, any other Loan Document or any other Instrument relating to
         any thereof or to any of the Obligations;

                  (b) any change in the existence, organization, structure or
         ownership of the Borrower or of any of its Subsidiaries or any
         Bankruptcy or Insolvency Proceeding affecting any such Person or any
         Property of any such Person or any resulting release or discharge of
         any of the Obligations contained in the Credit Agreement or any other
         Loan Documents;

                  (c)      the failure of the Bank

                           (i) to assert any claim or demand or to enforce any
                  right or remedy against the Borrower or any other Persons
                  under any provisions of the Credit Agreement or any other Loan
                  Documents or any other agreement or Instrument relating to any
                  thereof or under any Applicable Law, or

                           (ii) to exercise any right or remedy against any
                  Collateral;

                  (d) any change in the time, manner or place of payment of, or
         in any other term of all or any Obligations, or any other compromise,
         renewal, extension, acceleration or release with respect thereto or
         with respect to the Collateral, or any other amendment to, rescission,
         waiver or other modification of, or any consent to any departure from
         any of the terms, of the Credit Agreement, any other Loan Document or
         any other Instrument relating to any thereof;

                  (e) any increase, reduction, limitation, impairment or
         termination of the Obligations for any reason, including any claim of
         waiver, release, surrender, alteration or compromise, and any defense
         or set-off, counterclaim, recoupment or termination whatsoever by
         reason of the invalidity, illegality, nongenuineness, irregularity,
         compromise or unenforceability of, or any other event or occurrence
         affecting, any of the Obligations (and the Borrower hereby waives any
         right to or claim of any such defense or set-off, counterclaim,
         recoupment or termination);
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                  (f) any sale, exchange, release, surrender or non-perfection
         of any of the Security Agreement Collateral or any other Collateral, or
         any release or amendment or waiver of, or any consent to any departure
         from, any guaranty or collateral held by the Bank securing or
         guaranteeing all or any of the Obligations;

                  (g) any defense, set-off or counterclaim which may at any time
         be available to or be asserted by the Borrower against the Bank; or

                  (h) any other circumstances which might otherwise constitute a
         suretyship or other defense available to, or a legal or equitable
         discharge of, the Borrower.

         SECTION 2.7. ATTORNEY-IN-FACT. The Borrower hereby irrevocably appoints
the Bank, and any officer or agent thereof, the Borrower's attorney-in-fact,
with full authority in the place and stead of the Borrower and in the name of
the Borrower or otherwise, from time to time in the Bank's discretion, at any
time and from time to time, to take any and all action and to execute any
Instrument or other assurance which the Bank may deem reasonably necessary or
advisable to accomplish the purposes of this Agreement (subject to the rights of
the Borrower under Section 4.4), including, without limitation:

                  (a) to obtain and adjust insurance required to be maintained
         by the Borrower pursuant to Section 4.3;

                  (b) to ask, demand, collect, sue, recover, compromise,
         receive, and give acquittances and receipts, for moneys due or to
         become due under or in respect of any of the Security Agreement
         Collateral;

                  (c) to receive, endorse and collect any drafts or other
         Instruments and chattel paper in connection with clause (a) or (b);

                  (d) to execute and do all such assurances, acts and things
         which the Borrower ought to do under the covenants and provisions of
         this Agreement;

                  (e) to take any and all such actions as the Bank may, in its
         reasonable discretion, determine to be necessary or advisable for the
         purpose of maintaining, preserving or protecting the security
         constituted by this Agreement or any of the rights, remedies, powers or
         privileges of the Bank under this Agreement;

                  (f) generally, in the name of the Borrower or in the name of
         the Bank, to exercise all or any of the powers, authorities and
         discretions conferred on or reserved to the Bank pursuant to this
         Agreement;

                  (g) to maintain and preserve all of the Intellectual Property
         Collateral; and

                  (h) to file such financing statements with respect hereto, or
         a photocopy of this Agreement in substitution for a financing
         statement, as the Bank may deem appropriate.
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The Borrower hereby ratifies all that the Bank shall do or cause to be done by
virtue hereof. The Borrower hereby acknowledges, consents, and agrees that the
power of attorney granted to the Bank pursuant to this Section 2.7 is
irrevocable and coupled with an interest and shall terminate only upon
termination in full of all of the Commitment and payment in full and in cash of
all of the Obligations. Unless any Event of Default shall be continuing, the
Bank shall notify the Borrower promptly of any action taken by the Bank pursuant
to the power-of-attorney granted to the Bank pursuant to this Section 2.7.

         SECTION 2.8. PROTECTION OF COLLATERAL. The Bank may from time to time,
at its option, perform any act which the Borrower shall have agreed hereunder to
perform and which the Borrower shall fail to perform after being requested in
writing to so perform (it being understood that no such request need be given
during the continuance of any Default or Event of Default), and the Bank may
from time to time take any other action which the Bank reasonably deems
necessary for the maintenance, preservation or protection of any of the Security
Agreement Collateral or of the security interests therein. The Bank will
exercise reasonable care in the custody and preservation of the Security
Agreement Collateral in its possession.

         SECTION 2.9. BANK HAS NO DUTY. The powers conferred on the Bank
hereunder are solely to protect its interest in the Security Agreement
Collateral and shall not impose any duty upon it to exercise any such powers.
Except as provided in Section 2.8, the accounting for moneys actually received
by it hereunder and other duties imposed by the U.C.C. upon secured creditors
(unless otherwise modified hereby), the Bank shall have no duty as to any
Security Agreement Collateral or responsibility for taking any necessary steps
to preserve rights against prior parties or any other rights pertaining to any
Security Agreement Collateral.

         SECTION 2.10. CONTINUING SECURITY INTERESTS; TERMINATION OF SECURITY
INTERESTS. This Agreement has created and shall create continuing security
interests in all of the Security Agreement Collateral and shall:

                  (a) remain in full force and effect until the latest to occur
         of the termination of all of the Commitment of the Bank under the
         Credit Agreement and all other Loan Documents, the payment in full of
         the unpaid principal of all of the Loans, the payment in full or (as
         the case may be) the termination of all Letter of Credit Outstandings,
         or the payment in full in cash of all the other Obligations;

                  (b) be binding upon the Borrower and its successors and
         assigns (provided that the Borrower may not assign any of its
         obligations hereunder without the prior written consent of the Bank);
         and

                  (c) inure to the benefit of the Bank and its successors,
         transferees and assigns.

Upon the latest to occur of the termination of all of the Commitment of the Bank
under the Credit Agreement and all other Loan Documents, the payment in full of
the unpaid principal of all of the Loans, the payment in full or (as the case
may be) the termination of all Letter of Credit Outstandings, or the payment in
full in cash of all of the Obligations, the security interests
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                                      -14-


granted hereby by the Borrower shall automatically terminate and all rights to
the Security Agreement Collateral of the Borrower shall revert to the Borrower.
Upon any such termination of the security interests granted hereby, the Bank
will, at the sole expense of the Borrower, promptly execute and deliver to the
Borrower such Instruments and other assurances as the Borrower shall reasonably
request to evidence such termination, including properly completed UCC-3
Financing Statements.

                                   ARTICLE III

                         REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

         The Borrower represents and warrants to the Bank as set forth in this
Article III, but subject always to the terms and provisions of the Credit
Agreement and the Disclosure Schedule attached thereto.

         SECTION 3.1. LOCATIONS. The chief place of business and chief executive
office of the Borrower and the offices where the Borrower keeps its records
concerning its Security Agreement Collateral and its Equipment are specified in
Item A of Exhibit B. The Borrower has exclusive possession and control of
substantially all of its Equipment and Inventory, all of which is located at the
places specified in Item B and Item C, respectively, of Exhibit B. As of the
date hereof, no Security Agreement Collateral or Equipment is located at any
other location, except those locations specified in Items A, B and C of Exhibit
B.

         SECTION 3.2. OWNERSHIP, POSSESSION, ETC. The Borrower owns its Security
Agreement Collateral and its Equipment free and clear of all Liens, EXCEPT (a)
for Liens from time to time permitted by the Loan Documents, and (b) as
otherwise provided or contemplated by the Credit Agreement or the Disclosure
Schedule attached thereto. No effective financing statements or other Security
Instruments similar in effect covering all or any part of the Security Agreement
Collateral or Equipment of the Borrower are on file in any recording office,
except such as may have been filed in favor of the Bank relating to this
Agreement and except such as are identified in Item D of Exhibit B or are from
time to time permitted under the Loan Documents. The Borrower does no business
in the United States under any trade names other than those listed in Item E of
Exhibit B. No material item of Security Agreement Collateral consists of chattel
paper which evidences Contract Rights, and no item of Security Agreement
Collateral is evidenced by a promissory note or other Instrument (other, in any
case, than checks or drafts received in the ordinary course of business).

         SECTION 3.3. CONTRACTS, ETC. Each of the material Related Contracts and
other contracts (and all agreements and contract rights embodied therein) which
constitutes Security Agreement Collateral has been, to the knowledge of the
Borrower, duly authorized, executed and delivered by the parties thereto, has
not been amended or modified in any manner which would have a Materially Adverse
Effect, is in full force and effect, and is binding upon and enforceable against
the parties thereto in accordance with its terms, subject, as to enforcement,
only to bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other similar
Applicable Laws affecting the enforceability of the rights of creditors
generally. There exists no material default or other condition which, after
notice or lapse of time, would become a material default under any such
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                                      -15-


Related Contract or other contract which default could reasonably be expected to
have a Materially Adverse Effect.

         SECTION 3.4. PERFECTION, ETC. This Agreement, together with the filing
of the UCC-1 Financing Statements signed by the Borrower and delivered to the
Bank on or prior to the date hereof, will create, upon the filing of the UCC-l
Financing Statements in the appropriate filing offices, a valid security
interest in substantially all the Security Agreement Collateral as to which a
security interest may be perfected by filing UCC-1 Financing Statements, which
security interest (except as to any Security Agreement Collateral in which
another Person has a prior security interest pursuant to a Lien permitted under
the Loan Documents) is a first-priority security interest. No authorization,
approval or other action by and no notice to or filing with any Governmental
Authority is required either for the grant by the Borrower of the security
interest created hereby or for the execution, delivery or performance of this
Agreement by the Borrower or for the perfection of such security interests
created hereby in any Security Agreement Collateral as to which a security
interest may be perfected by the filing of UCC-1 Financing Statements, EXCEPT
for:

                  (i) the filing of the UCC-1 Financing Statements signed by the
         Borrower and delivered to the Bank on or prior to the date hereof;

                  (ii) with respect to the exercise by the Bank of its rights
         and remedies with respect to contracts pursuant to which the United
         States government (or any of its agencies, departments, or
         instrumentalities) is the obligor, compliance with the notice
         provisions of the Assignment of Claims Act of 1940 or comparable
         provisions of State law;

                  (iii) in respect of goods covered by a certificate of title,
         receipt by the Bank of such certificate of title indicating the
         security interest of the Bank on such certificate;

                  (iv) with respect to the exercise by the Bank of its rights
         and remedies with respect to any securities, compliance with the
         federal and state laws affecting the offering and sale of securities;
         and

                  (v) the timely filing of UCC continuation statements.

         SECTION 3.5. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY COLLATERAL. The Borrower represents
and warrants to the Bank that:

                  (a) it is the true and lawful owner of the Intellectual
         Property Collateral identified as its Property in Items A, B, C, and D
         of Exhibit A, and such Intellectual Property Collateral constitutes all
         of the material United States Intellectual Property Collateral owned by
         the Borrower;

                  (b) it is a licensee under the Intellectual Property
         Collateral identified as owned by it in Item E of Exhibit A, and such
         Intellectual Property Collateral constitutes
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                                      -16-


         all of the material Intellectual Property Collateral under which the
         Borrower is the licensee;

                  (c) the Intellectual Property Collateral of the Borrower is
         subsisting in all material respects and has not been adjudged invalid
         or unenforceable, in whole or in any material part;

                  (d) the rights of the Bank in the Intellectual Property
         Collateral of the Borrower are valid and enforceable against the
         Borrower in all material respects;

                  (e) except as otherwise described in Exhibit A, the Borrower
         has not made any recordations of any of its interests (i) in Patents
         and Trademarks, in the United States Patent and Trademark Office, or
         (ii) in Copyrights, in the United States Copyright Office;

                  (f) the Borrower is the owner of the entire right, title and
         interest in and to the Intellectual Property Collateral owned by the
         Borrower, free and clear of all Liens, except for Liens from time to
         time permitted under the Loan Documents, and, to the Borrower's
         knowledge, no claim is being asserted that the use of its Intellectual
         Property Collateral does or may violate in any material respect the
         asserted rights of any third party;

                  (g) the Borrower has performed and will continue to perform in
         all material respects all acts and has paid and will continue to pay
         all required fees and taxes to maintain in full force and effect in the
         United States each item of Intellectual Property Collateral that is
         owned by the Borrower and that has been registered with the United
         States Patent and Trademark Office or the United States Copyright
         Office; and

                  (h) the Borrower owns, or is entitled to use by license or
         otherwise, all patents, trademarks, trade secrets, copyrights,
         licenses, technology, know-how, processes and other rights with respect
         to any of the foregoing used in or necessary for the conduct of the
         Borrower's business.

         SECTION 3.6. PLEDGED COLLATERAL. The delivery by the Borrower to the
Bank of the Pledged Collateral purported to be pledged by the Borrower from time
to time hereunder will be effective to create, in favor of the Bank, valid,
perfected security interests in such Pledged Collateral subject only to such
other Liens as shall from time to time be permitted by the Credit Agreement and
the other Loan Documents.

                                   ARTICLE IV

                                    COVENANTS

         SECTION 4.1. FURTHER ASSURANCES GENERALLY. The Borrower hereby
covenants and agrees that it will, from time to time at its own expense,
promptly execute and deliver all further Instruments and other assurances and
take all further action that may be necessary or reasonably desirable, or that
the Bank may reasonably request, in order to perfect and protect any security
interests purported to be granted by the Borrower under this Agreement or to
enable the Bank to
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                                      -17-


exercise and enforce its rights and remedies hereunder with respect to any of
the Security Agreement Collateral. Without limitation of the foregoing, the
Borrower will, with respect to all of its following Property constituting
Security Agreement Collateral:

                  (a) at the request of the Bank at any time when any Event of
         Default is continuing, immediately mark conspicuously each document
         included in the Inventory, each chattel paper included in the Contract
         Rights, each Related Contract, each Account Receivable and each of its
         records pertaining to Security Agreement Collateral with a legend, in
         form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Bank, indicating that
         such Account Receivable, document, chattel paper, Related Contract or
         Security Agreement Collateral is subject to the security interests
         granted hereby;

                  (b) at the written request of the Bank, if any Account
         Receivable shall be evidenced by any Instruments, Securities or chattel
         paper, promptly deliver and pledge to the Bank hereunder such
         Instruments, Securities or chattel paper duly endorsed and accompanied
         by duly executed Instruments of transfer or assignment (other, in any
         case, than any checks or drafts received in the ordinary course of
         business), all in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the
         Bank; and

                  (c) execute and file such financing or continuation
         statements, or amendments thereto, and such other Instruments and
         notices, as may be necessary or reasonably desirable, or as the Bank
         may reasonably request, in order to perfect and preserve the security
         interests granted or purported to be granted hereby.

The Borrower hereby further authorizes the Bank to file one or more financing or
continuation statements, and amendments thereto, relative to all or any part of
the Security Agreement Collateral without the signature of the Borrower where
permitted by Applicable Law. A copy of this Agreement shall be sufficient as a
financing statement where permitted by Applicable Law. The Borrower will furnish
to the Bank from time to time statements and schedules further identifying and
describing the Security Agreement Collateral and such other reports in
connection with the Security Agreement Collateral as the Bank may reasonably
request, all in reasonable detail.

         SECTION 4.2. AS TO EQUIPMENT AND INVENTORY. The Borrower hereby
covenants and agrees that it will, with respect to all of its following Property
constituting Equipment or Security Agreement Collateral:

                  (a) keep the Equipment and Inventory (other than (i) worn-out
         and no longer used or useful Equipment, and (ii) Inventory sold in the
         ordinary course of business) at the places therefor specified in
         Section 3.1, or, upon 30 days' prior written notice to the Bank, at
         such other places in jurisdictions where all action required by the
         Bank pursuant to Section 4.1 shall have been taken with respect to the
         Equipment and Inventory;

                  (b) cause the Equipment to be maintained and preserved in good
         condition, repair and working order, ordinary wear and tear and
         worn-out and no longer used or useful Equipment excepted, and shall, in
         the case of any material loss or damage to any
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                                      -18-


         of the material Equipment (of which written notice shall be given to
         the Bank promptly, if such loss or damage is material) as quickly as
         reasonably practicable after the occurrence thereof, make or cause to
         be made all repairs, replacements and other improvements in connection
         therewith which are necessary or desirable to such end;

                  (c) pay promptly prior to the date they become delinquent all
         property and other taxes, assessments and governmental charges or
         levies in the aggregate imposed upon, and all claims against, the
         Equipment and Inventory, except to the extent the validity thereof is
         being contested in good faith; and

                  (d) permit representatives of the Bank at any time upon
         reasonable notice during normal business hours to enter on premises
         where any of its Security Agreement Collateral or Equipment is located
         for the purpose of inspecting the Borrower's books and records and its
         Security Agreement Collateral and Equipment, observing its use or
         otherwise protecting the Bank's interests therein.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, this Section 4.2 shall not be deemed, in and of
itself, to restrict any disposition of Property by the Borrower otherwise
permitted under the Credit Agreement.

         SECTION 4.3. INSURANCE. The Borrower will, at its own expense, maintain
insurance with respect to its Equipment and Inventory in such amounts, against
such risks, in such form, and with such insurers, as shall be customary in the
case of similar businesses and reasonably satisfactory to the Bank, including,
without limitation, property and casualty insurance complying with the foregoing
provisions and naming the Bank as loss payee and additional insured. The
Borrower will, if requested by the Bank, deliver to the Bank original or
duplicate policies of such insurance and, as often as the Bank may reasonably
request, a report of a reputable insurance broker with respect to the adequacy
of such insurance. Further, the Borrower will, at the request of the Bank, duly
execute and deliver Instruments of assignment of such insurance policies, and
cause the respective insurers to acknowledge notice of such assignment. All
insurance payments otherwise payable to the Borrower under policies of Property
damage insurance shall instead be paid to and applied by the Bank as specified
in Section 5.2.

         SECTION 4.4. AS TO CONTRACT RIGHTS. The Borrower will, with respect to
all of its following Property constituting Security Agreement Collateral:

                  (a) keep its chief place of business and chief executive
         office and the offices where it keeps its records concerning the
         Contract Rights, and all originals of all chattel paper which evidence
         Contract Rights, at the location therefor specified in Section 3.1 or,
         upon thirty (30) days' prior written notice to the Bank, at such other
         locations; provided, however, that all statements set forth in Section
         3.4 shall be true and correct and all action reasonably required by the
         Bank pursuant to Section 4.1 shall have been taken;

                  (b) hold and preserve such records and chattel paper and
         permit representatives of the Bank upon reasonable advance written
         notice at any time during normal business hours to inspect and make
         abstracts from such records and chattel paper.
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                                      -19-


Unless any Default is continuing and the Bank has instructed the Borrower
otherwise, the Borrower shall, except as otherwise provided by the Credit
Agreement, continue to collect, at its own expense, all amounts due or to become
due to the Borrower under the Contract Rights, provided, that the Borrower may
adjust, settle or compromise the amount or payment thereof in the ordinary
course of business. In connection with such collections, the Borrower may take
such action as the Borrower may deem necessary or advisable to enforce
collection of the Contract Rights; provided, however, that the Bank shall have
the right, at any time during the continuance of any Default, to communicate
with account debtors in order to verify with them, to the Bank's reasonable
satisfaction, the existence, amount and terms of any Accounts Receivable or
other Contract Rights, to notify the account debtors or obligors under any
Accounts Receivable or other Contract Rights of the assignment of such Accounts
Receivable or other Contract Rights to the Bank, and to direct such account
debtors or obligors to make payment of all amounts due or to become due to the
Borrower thereunder directly to the Bank (to such account of the Bank as the
Bank shall reasonably designate) and, upon such notification and at the expense
of the Borrower, to enforce collection of any such Accounts Receivable or other
Contract Rights, and to adjust, settle or compromise the amount or payment
thereof, in the same manner and to the same extent as the Borrower might have
done. During the continuance of a Default and receipt (at any time thereafter)
by the Borrower of notice from the Bank instructing the Borrower to comply with
the following provisions of this Section 4.4: (i) all amounts and proceeds
(including any Instruments) received by the Borrower in respect of any Accounts
Receivable or other Contract Rights shall be received in trust for the benefit
of the Bank hereunder, shall be segregated from other funds of the Borrower, and
shall be forthwith paid over to the Bank (to such account of the Bank as the
Bank shall designate) in the same form as so received (with any necessary
endorsements) to be held as cash collateral and applied in accordance with
Section 5.2; and (ii) the Borrower will not, without the consent of the Bank,
adjust, settle, or compromise the amount or payment of any Accounts Receivable
or other Contract Rights, or release wholly or partly any account debtor or
obligor thereof, or allow any credit or discount thereon.

         SECTION 4.5. AS TO INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY COLLATERAL. The Borrower
hereby covenants and agrees that, with respect to all of its following Property
constituting Security Agreement Collateral:

                  (a) the Borrower will not, unless the Borrower shall either
         (i) reasonably and in good faith determine that any of the Patent
         Collateral is of negligible economic value to the Borrower, or (ii)
         have a valid business purpose to do otherwise, do any act, or omit to
         do any act, whereby any of the Patent Collateral may become abandoned
         or dedicated;

                  (b) neither the Borrower nor any of its licensees will, unless
         the Borrower shall reasonably and in good faith determine that any of
         the Trademark Collateral is of negligible economic value to the
         Borrower, (i) fail to continue to use any of the Trademark Collateral
         in order to maintain all of the Trademark Collateral in full force free
         from any claim of abandonment for non-use, (ii) fail to maintain
         consistent with past practices the quality of products and services
         offered under any of the Trademark Collateral, (iii) fail to employ any
         of the Trademark Collateral with an appropriate
<PAGE>   20
                                      -20-


         trademark notice, (iv) adopt or use any trademark or trade name which
         is confusingly similar or a colorable imitation of any of the Trademark
         Collateral, (v) use any of the Trademark Collateral in any manner other
         than the manner for which registration or application for registration
         of such Trademark Collateral (if any) has been made, or (vi) permit any
         of the Trademark Collateral to become invalidated;

                  (c) the Borrower will, if the Borrower registers any of its
         copyrights with the United States Copyright Office: (i) notify the Bank
         promptly upon any such registration; and (ii) provide the Bank with all
         such information as the Bank shall from time to time reasonably
         request;

                  (d) the Borrower will not, unless the Borrower shall either
         (i) reasonably and in good faith determine that any of the Copyright
         Collateral or any of the Trade Secrets Collateral owned by the Borrower
         is of negligible economic value to the Borrower, or (ii) have a valid
         business purpose to do otherwise, do or permit any act or knowingly
         omit to do any act whereby any of the Copyright Collateral or Trade
         Secrets Collateral owned by the Borrower may lapse or become invalid or
         unenforceable or placed in the public domain except upon expiration of
         an unrenewable term of a registration thereof;

                  (e) the Borrower will notify the Bank promptly if it knows
         that any application or registration relating to any material item of
         Intellectual Property Collateral may become abandoned or dedicated to
         the public domain or invalid or unenforceable, or of any adverse
         determination or development regarding the Borrower's ownership of any
         of the material Intellectual Property Collateral, its right to register
         the same, or to keep and maintain the same;

                  (f) neither the Borrower nor any of its agents, employees,
         licensees or designees will file an application for the registration of
         any Intellectual Property Collateral with the United States Patent and
         Trademark Office, the United States Copyright Office or any other
         Governmental Authority unless it, within thirty (30) days thereof,
         informs the Bank, and upon request of the Bank, executes and delivers
         any and all Instruments as the Bank may reasonably request to evidence
         the Bank's security interest in such Intellectual Property Collateral
         and the goodwill and general intangibles of the Borrower relating
         thereto or represented thereby;

                  (g) the Borrower will take all necessary steps, including in
         any proceeding before the United States Patent and Trademark Office or
         any political subdivision thereof or the United States Copyright Office
         or any political subdivision thereof, to maintain and pursue each
         application (and to obtain the relevant registration) filed with
         respect to, and to maintain any registration of, the material
         Intellectual Property Collateral, including the filing of applications
         for renewal, affidavits of use, affidavits of incontestability and
         opposition, interference and cancellation proceedings (except to the
         extent that dedication, abandonment, or invalidation is permitted under
         clause (a), (b), (c) or (d) above); and
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                                      -21-


                  (h) the Borrower will execute and deliver to the Bank, from
         time to time upon the request of the Bank, such Copyright Security
         Agreements, Trademark Security Agreements and such other Instruments as
         may be required to acknowledge or register or perfect the Bank's
         security interests in any part of the Intellectual Property Collateral
         owned by the Borrower which shall from time to time hereafter be
         recorded or registered by the Borrower with the United States Copyright
         Office or United States Patent and Trademark Office.

         SECTION 4.6. AS TO PLEDGED COLLATERAL. The Borrower hereby covenants
and agrees with the Bank that, with respect to all of its following Property
constituting Pledged Collateral, the Borrower will:

         SECTION 4.6.1. STOCK POWERS, INSTRUMENTS, ETC. From time to time upon
the request of the Bank, except as otherwise provided herein, (a) promptly
deliver to the Bank such stock powers, Instruments (other, in any case, than
Dividends or any checks or drafts received in the ordinary course of business)
and similar documents, satisfactory in form and substance to the Bank, with
respect to the Pledged Collateral purported to be pledged by the Borrower
hereunder as the Bank may request, and (b) during the continuance of any Event
of Default, promptly, upon request of the Bank, transfer any Pledged Interests
or other Pledged Collateral into the name of any nominee designated by the Bank.

         SECTION 4.6.2. VOTING RIGHTS; DIVIDENDS, ETC. Deliver (properly
endorsed where required hereby or reasonably requested by the Bank) to the Bank
if requested by the Bank while any Event of Default shall be continuing:

                  (a) promptly upon receipt thereof by the Borrower, while any
         Event of Default shall be continuing, all Dividends and other cash
         payments and other interest, income and proceeds received by the
         Borrower in respect of the Pledged Collateral purported to be pledged
         by the Borrower hereunder, all of which shall be held by the Bank as
         additional Pledged Collateral for use in accordance with Section 5.2;
         and

                  (b) while any Event of Default shall be continuing, promptly
         upon request of the Bank, such proxies and other documents as may be
         necessary to allow the Bank to exercise voting power with respect to
         any Pledged Interests constituting Pledged Collateral purported to be
         pledged by such Pledgor hereunder.

All (i) Dividends, Distributions, cash payments, interest, income and proceeds
which may at any time and from time to time be held by the Borrower, but which
is then required to be delivered to the Bank in accordance with the terms of
this Agreement, and (ii) additional Pledged Interests and other Pledged
Collateral received by the Borrower, shall, until delivery to the Bank, be held
by the Borrower separate and apart from its other Property in trust for the
Bank.

         SECTION 4.6.3. DIVIDENDS AND VOTING RIGHTS OTHER THAN FOLLOWING AN
  EVENT OF DEFAULT. The Bank agrees with the Borrower as follows:
<PAGE>   22
                                      -22-


                  (a) unless an Event of Default is continuing and the Bank has
         delivered to the Borrower a written notice referring to this Section
         4.6.3 and the exercise of rights hereunder (a "SECTION 4.6.3 NOTICE"),
         the Borrower shall be entitled to exercise, in its reasonable judgment,
         but in a manner that would not impair in any material respect the
         Pledged Collateral and that would not violate or contravene the terms
         of this Agreement, the Credit Agreement or any other Loan Document, the
         voting power and all other incidental rights of ownership with respect
         to the Pledged Interests and other Pledged Collateral pledged by the
         Borrower hereunder; and

                  (b) the Borrower shall be entitled to receive all Dividends on
         the Pledged Collateral pledged by the Borrower hereunder and to use the
         proceeds of all such Dividends as and to the extent from time to time
         permitted or otherwise not prohibited by the Credit Agreement.

The Bank agrees that, unless an Event of Default is continuing and the Bank
shall have delivered a Section 4.6.3 Notice, the Bank shall, upon the written
request of the Borrower, promptly deliver such proxies and other documents, if
any, as shall be reasonably requested by the Borrower to allow the Borrower to
exercise the rights described in clause (a) or clause (b) of this Section 4.6.3.

         SECTION 4.7. DEFENSE OF BANK'S RIGHTS. The Borrower hereby covenants
and agrees that it will defend the right, title and interest of the Bank in and
to the Security Agreement Collateral and in and to all of the proceeds and
products thereof against the claims and demands of all other Persons.

         SECTION 4.8. CONTINUOUS PERFECTION. The Borrower hereby covenants and
agrees that it will not change its name, identity or corporate structure in any
manner which might make any financing or continuation statement filed hereunder
seriously misleading within the meaning of Section 9-402(7) of the U.C.C. (or
any other then applicable provision of the U.C.C.) unless the Borrower shall
have given the Bank at least thirty (30) days' prior written notice thereof and
shall have taken all action (or made arrangements to take such action
substantially simultaneously with such change if it is impossible to take such
action in advance) necessary or reasonably requested by the Bank to amend such
financing statement or continuation statement so that it is not seriously
misleading.

         SECTION 4.9.  TRANSFERS AND OTHER LIENS.

                  (a) The Borrower hereby covenants and agrees that it will not:

                           (i) sell, assign (by operation of law or otherwise)
                  or otherwise dispose of any of its Security Agreement
                  Collateral or Equipment, except (in any case) for Sales and
                  other dispositions of Property from time to time permitted by
                  the Loan Documents; or
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                                      -23-


                           (ii) create or suffer to exist any Liens upon or with
                  respect to any of its Security Agreement Collateral or
                  Equipment, except for (A) the security interests created by
                  this Agreement, and (B) any other Liens from time to time
                  permitted by the Loan Documents.

                  (b) The Borrower hereby covenants and agrees that it will
         defend the right, title and interest of the Bank in and to its Security
         Agreement Collateral and in and to all of the proceeds and products
         thereof against the claims and demands of all other Persons.

         SECTION 4.10. NOTICES. The Borrower hereby covenants and agrees that it
will, upon obtaining knowledge thereof, advise the Bank promptly, in reasonable
detail, (a) of any Lien made or asserted against any of its Security Agreement
Collateral (except for Liens from time to time permitted by the Loan Documents
to attach to such Security Agreement Collateral), (b) of any material change
outside of the ordinary course of business in the composition of its Security
Agreement Collateral, (c) of the occurrence of any other event which would have
a materially adverse effect on the aggregate value of its Security Agreement
Collateral or on the security interests created by it hereunder, and (d) any
other matters relating to its Security Agreement Collateral that the Bank may
from time to time reasonably request in writing.

                                    ARTICLE V

                                    REMEDIES

         SECTION 5.1. EXERCISE. If any Event of Default is continuing, the Bank
may exercise in respect of all or any of the Security Agreement Collateral, in
addition to all other rights and remedies provided for herein or otherwise
available to it, all the rights and remedies of the Bank upon default under the
U.C.C. (whether or not the U.C.C. applies to the affected Security Agreement
Collateral) and other Applicable Law. Without limitation of the above, the Bank
may, whenever an Event of Default is continuing, without (to the extent
permitted by Applicable Law) notice to the Borrower, take all or any of the
following actions:

                  (a) transfer all or any part of the Security Agreement
         Collateral into the name of the Bank or its nominee, with or without
         disclosing that such Security Agreement Collateral is subject to any
         Liens hereunder;

                  (b) notify the parties obligated in respect of any of the
         Security Agreement Collateral to make payments directly to the Bank of
         any amount due or to become due thereunder;

                  (c) enforce collection of any of the Security Agreement
         Collateral by suit or otherwise, and surrender, release or exchange all
         or any part thereof, or compromise or extend or renew for any period
         (whether or not longer than the original period) any obligations of any
         nature of any party with respect thereto;

                  (d) endorse any checks, drafts or other writings in the name
         of the Borrower to allow collection of the Security Agreement
         Collateral;
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                  (e) take control of any proceeds of the Security Agreement
         Collateral;

                  (f) execute (in the name, place, and stead of the Borrower)
         endorsements, assignments, stock powers and other Instruments of
         conveyance or transfer with respect to all or any of the Security
         Agreement Collateral; and

                  (g) generally, do all such other acts and things as may be
         considered incidental or conducive to any of the matters or powers
         mentioned in the foregoing provisions of this Section 5.1 and which the
         Bank may or can do lawfully and to use the name of the Borrower for
         such purposes and in any proceedings arising therefrom.

In furtherance of, and not in limitation of, the foregoing, the Bank, without
demand of performance or other demand, advertisement or notice of any kind
(except the notice specified below of time and place of public or private sale)
to or upon the Borrower or any other Person (all and each of which demands,
advertisements and/or notices are hereby expressly irrevocably waived by the
Borrower), may, whenever any Event of Default is continuing, in a commercially
reasonable manner, collect, receive, appropriate and realize upon the Security
Agreement Collateral, or any part thereof, and sell, assign, give an option or
options to purchase, contract to sell or otherwise dispose of and deliver the
Security Agreement Collateral, or any part thereof, in one or more parcels at
public or private sale or sales, at any exchange, at any broker's board or at
any of the Bank's offices or elsewhere upon such terms and conditions as it may
reasonably deem advisable and at such prices as it may deem best, for cash or on
credit or for future delivery without assumption of any credit risk, with the
right to the Bank upon any such sale or sales, public or private, to purchase
the whole or any part of the Security Agreement Collateral so sold, free of any
right or equity of redemption in the Borrower, which right or equity is hereby
expressly irrevocably waived and released by the Borrower. Unless Security
Agreement Collateral is perishable or threatens to decline speedily in value or
is of a type customarily sold on a recognized market, in which event no
notification is required, the Borrower agrees that the Bank need not give it
more than ten (10) days' notice of the time and place of any public sale or of
the time after which a private sale or other intended disposition is to take
place and that such notice is reasonable notification of such matters.

         SECTION 5.2. APPLICATION OF PROCEEDS. All cash proceeds received or
otherwise held by the Bank in respect of any sale of, collection from, or other
realization upon, all or any part of the Security Agreement Collateral shall be
applied by the Bank in the following order:

                  (a) FIRST, to any Person, on account of the payment of any
         Indebtedness, the payment of which shall be secured by any Lien having
         priority over the rights of the Bank in and to such cash proceeds;

                  (b) SECOND, to the Bank, on account of the payment of, or the
         reimbursement of the Bank for, all costs and expenses incurred or
         sustained by the Bank that are required by the terms of this Agreement,
         the Credit Agreement or any other Loan Document to be paid or
         reimbursed by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries; and
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                  (c) THIRD, to the Bank, on account of all of the other
         Obligations of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries to the Bank
         (whether or not such Obligations are then due and payable, matured or
         unmatured, absolute or contingent, or otherwise).

Any surplus of such cash proceeds held by the Bank and remaining after payment
in full of all of the Obligations shall be paid over to the Borrower or to
whomsoever else may be lawfully entitled to receive such surplus.

         THE BORROWER SHALL REMAIN LIABLE FOR ANY DEFICIENCY.

         SECTION 5.3. INDEMNITY AND EXPENSES. The Borrower hereby indemnifies
and holds harmless the Bank and the shareholders, officers, directors,
employees, agents, Subsidiaries and affiliates of the Bank, from and against any
and all claims, losses, and liabilities arising out of or resulting from this
Agreement (including the enforcement thereof), except to the extent that such
claims, losses or liabilities have been found by a court of competent
jurisdiction, in a final, nonappealable order, to have resulted as a consequence
of the Bank's fraud, gross negligence or willful misconduct. The Borrower will,
upon written demand, pay to the Bank the amount of any and all reasonable
expenses, including the reasonable fees and disbursements of its counsel and of
any experts, which the Bank may incur in connection with:

                  (a) the administration of this Agreement or any agreement or
         other Instrument relating hereto;

                  (b) the removal, custody, preservation, use or operation of,
         or the sale of, collection from, or other realization upon, any of the
         Borrower's Security Agreement Collateral;

                  (c) the exercise or enforcement against the Borrower of any of
         the rights or remedies of the Bank hereunder;

                  (d) the failure by the Borrower to perform or observe any of
         the provisions hereof; or

                  (e) the advancement of any funds in connection with actions
         taken pursuant to Section 2.7.

         SECTION 5.4. GRANT OF LICENSE TO USE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY COLLATERAL.
For the purpose of enabling the Bank to exercise rights and remedies under
Section 5.1, and as a supplement to any other rights and remedies available to
the Bank, the Borrower grants to the Bank an irrevocable, non-exclusive license
(without payment of any royalty or other compensation to the Borrower) to use,
license or sublicense and to change, alter or otherwise modify, any Intellectual
Property Collateral now owned or hereafter created, arising or acquired by the
Borrower, and including in such license reasonable access to all media in which
any of the licensed items may be recorded or stored and to all computer and
automatic machinery software and programs used for the compilation or printout
thereof.
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         SECTION 5.5. NO WAIVER; REMEDIES CUMULATIVE. No delay, act or omission
on the part of the Bank of any of its rights hereunder shall be deemed a waiver
of any rights hereunder unless also contained in a writing signed by the Bank,
nor shall any single or partial exercise of, or any failure to exercise, any
right, power or privilege preclude any other or further or initial exercise
thereof of any other right, power or privilege. The rights and remedies provided
herein are cumulative, and not exclusive of rights and remedies which may be
granted or provided by Applicable Law.

         SECTION 5.6. MARSHALLING. The Bank shall not be required to marshal any
present or future collateral security (including, but not limited to, this
Agreement and the Security Agreement Collateral) for, or other assurances of
payment of, the Obligations or any of them or to resort to such collateral
security or other assurances of payment in any particular order, and all of the
rights of the Bank hereunder or in respect of such collateral security and other
assurances of payment shall be cumulative and in addition to all other rights,
however existing or arising. To the extent that it lawfully may, the Borrower
hereby agrees that it will not invoke any Applicable Law relating to the
marshalling of collateral which might cause delay in or impede the enforcement
of the Bank's rights under this Agreement or under any other Instrument creating
or evidencing any of the Obligations or under which any of the Obligations is
outstanding or by which any of the Obligations is secured or payment thereof is
otherwise assured, and, to the extent that it lawfully may, the Borrower hereby
irrevocably waives the benefits of all such laws.

                                   ARTICLE VI

                                  MISCELLANEOUS

         SECTION 6.1. COLLATERAL DOCUMENT, ETC. For all purposes of the Credit
Agreement, this Agreement is a "COLLATERAL DOCUMENT" and a "LOAN DOCUMENT"
executed and delivered pursuant to the Credit Agreement, and shall (unless
otherwise expressly indicated herein) be construed, administered and applied in
accordance with and subject to the terms and provisions of the Credit Agreement.

         SECTION 6.2. AMENDMENTS, ETC. No amendment or waiver of any provision
of this Agreement nor consent to any departure by the Borrower herefrom shall in
any event be effective unless the same shall be in writing and signed by the
Bank, and then such waiver or consent shall be effective only in the specific
instance and for the specific purpose for which it is given.

         SECTION 6.3. ADDRESSES FOR NOTICES. All notices and other
communications provided for hereunder shall be in writing or by facsimile
transmission and, if to the Borrower, addressed or delivered to it at the
address specified in the Credit Agreement, and if to the Bank, addressed or
delivered to it at the address specified in the Credit Agreement, or as to any
party at such other address as shall be designated by such party in a written
notice to the other parties complying as to delivery with the terms of this
Section 6.3. Any such notices and other communications, if mailed and properly
addressed with postage prepaid or if transmitted by facsimile transmission,
shall be deemed given when received.
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         SECTION 6.4. CHOICE OF LAW. THIS AGREEMENT AND THE OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS
SHALL IN ALL RESPECTS BE CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH AND GOVERNED BY THE
INTERNAL LAWS OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA.

         SECTION 6.5. COUNTERPARTS; ENTIRE AGREEMENT. This Agreement may be
executed by the parties hereto in several counterparts, each of which shall be
deemed to be an original and all of which shall constitute together but one and
the same agreement. This Agreement, the Credit Agreement and the other Loan
Documents constitute the entire understanding between the parties hereto with
respect to the subject matter hereof and supersede any prior agreements, written
or oral, with respect thereto.

         SECTION 6.6. HEADINGS. The various headings of this Agreement are
inserted for convenience only and shall not affect the meaning or interpretation
of this Agreement or any provision hereof.

         SECTION 6.7. WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL. TO THE EXTENT NOT PROHIBITED BY
APPLICABLE LAW WHICH CANNOT BE WAIVED, EACH OF THE BANK AND THE BORROWER HEREBY
WAIVES, AND COVENANTS THAT IT WILL NOT ASSERT (WHETHER AS PLAINTIFF, DEFENDANT
OR OTHERWISE), ANY RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY FORUM IN RESPECT OF ANY ISSUE,
CLAIM, DEMAND, ACTION OR CAUSE OF ACTION ARISING OUT OF OR BASED UPON THIS
AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT OR THE SUBJECT MATTER HEREOF OR THEREOF OR
ANY OBLIGATION OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH OR RELATED OR INCIDENTAL TO THE
DEALINGS OF THE BANK OR OF THE BORROWER IN CONNECTION WITH ANY OF THE ABOVE, IN
EACH CASE WHETHER NOW EXISTING OR HEREAFTER ARISING AND WHETHER IN CONTRACT OR
TORT OR OTHERWISE. THE BORROWER ACKNOWLEDGES THAT THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION
6.7 CONSTITUTE A MATERIAL INDUCEMENT UPON WHICH THE BANK IS RELYING AND WILL
RELY IN ENTERING INTO THIS AGREEMENT. THE BANK OR THE BORROWER MAY FILE AN
ORIGINAL COUNTERPART OR A COPY OF THIS SECTION 6.7 WITH ANY COURT AS WRITTEN
EVIDENCE OF THE CONSENT OF THE BANK AND THE BORROWER TO THE WAIVER OF ITS RIGHT
TO TRIAL BY JURY.

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         IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this SECURITY
AGREEMENT to be duly executed and delivered by their respective officers
thereunto duly authorized on and as of the date first above written.


                                             THE BORROWER:

                    [SEAL]                   EDISON SCHOOLS INC.


Attest:                                      By:
                                                    Name:
                                                    Title:

                                             THE BANK:

                                             IMPERIAL BANK


                                              By:
                                                    Name:
                                                    Title:

STATE OF __________                   )
                                      ) SS.
COUNTY OF ________                    )

         Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public in and
for said county, ___________________, personally known to me, who, being by me
first duly sworn, declared that he is the ___________________ of EDISON SCHOOLS
INC., a Delaware corporation, that being duly authorized he did sign and seal
the said SECURITY AGREEMENT as such officer of and on behalf of such
corporation, and that the same is such corporation's free act and deed.

         IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and official seal on
this _____ day of November, 1999.


                                  NOTARY PUBLIC


                                  MY COMMISSION EXPIRES: