General Motors is selling a dream and tells you so. On television you are watching the assembly of what seems a station in space, but is really the building of the Aurora. The commercial plays on the radio and you hear the music and the poetry of a dream.
All good teaching is an extended commercial.
Teachers can't spend a half million on 30 seconds of teaching as the commercials do, but teachers can borrow the skills of these high tech mind manipulators. It is a matter of grabbing your attention, placing you in the midst of a dream, and letting your mind take you forward. It is the kind of thing found in movies like Field of Dreams , Dead Poets Society , or Forrest Gump . And it is the thing that should be involved in teaching children to tie their shoe or to tie their wagons to a star. His book contains a section on the newest technology, the computer.