Their disciples later reintroduced the previously discredited look-say method of reading instruction, which forces students to memorize instead of teaching them the analytical skills to decipher unfamiliar words. By contrast, the memorization approach yields high rates of failure and concomitant frustration and belligerence in youngsters in their formative years. Students who are discharged without serious socialization problems tend to blend into society compliantly as intended, but the antisocial disrupters the system creates move on to exacerbate social decay and disorder, conditions that those who hold the reins of the state can seize on to further strengthen state power. However, socialistic enterprises shielded from marketplace feedback eventually collapse, and government schooling is no exception. The accelerating trend to homeschooling is a sign of a major crack in its stability.
Modems stand poised to deliver the coup de gr ce.
The telecommunications revolution that is decentralizing myriad public and private institutions will have the same effect on education. In an extraordinarily wasteful exercise, they are also clamoring to install redundant computer technology to access remote learning resources that can be accessed by computers in students' homes. Distance-learning technology, including the developing arena of interactive communication, should lead to an explosive growth of homeschooling. Other organizational settings for learning will likely evolve, such as clustered multi-home schooling and neighborhood storefront schooling. Entrepreneurs will flood the marketplace with low-cost learning systems to tap the burgeoning demand.