You can't go on replacing people by machines. The pursuit of environmental mastery, the idea of knowing and controlling it all, is destructive nonsense. The mass production of fantasy by the media is no substitute for an inner life. On another front the message of press, television, radio and every high tech advance is clear. Hard graft and working things out with others doesn't get you anywhere.
Illusion is enough.
Resourcefulness and ingenuity which must always precede the discovery and deployment of resources now count for nought. Just as play and spontaneous activities provide the risk of discovery and learning and therefore can have no place in schooling, so imagination and ingenuity are the least of the attributes the State wants to see in the citizens. A national curriculum will surely inoculate us against these dangerous diseases. School can't solve any of our most pressing problems because it is part of the problem. The opportunities of parents, friends and neighbourhoods to regain responsibility for bringing up their kids grow with the demise of both school and the industrial myth.