At a certain age, a youth was taken from the main camp to live with the old men of the tribe, the sole repositories of tribal law and wisdom, who during many years of training, taught him the laws of his community, the relationship he bore to every member of it, and the secret myths and rituals of adult life.
All cultures have their myths and rituals which are communicated in a similar way.
Only the most fervent technologist would imagine that computer systems could or should change these processes in any significant way. Whatever one's views of Australian aboriginal culture, its transmission by some multimedia AI-ED system is a bleak vision. The traditional funfair provides many opportunities for children to learn or reinforce concepts of physics. The coconut shy is about force and impulse. And the ghost train warns children not to believe what they see and feel.