The difficulties in education remain virtually untouched. Hope for major improvements under present conditions is little more than a fantasy. Today's technology, if used differently, could bring advances that would improve education dramatically. Illiteracy could be eliminated, ordinary students could make massive gains, and restraints on bright students could dissolve. If computers are to be effective in schools, however, major changes must occur and that always frightens many parents, teachers, administrators, and politicians.
Opposition is therefore inevitable.
Some human instructors will object emotionally, fearing that more extensive employment of technology will seriously degrade their position. Their trepidation is understandable but groundless. Although teachers will have to alter their accustomed practices, they will reach a new level of importance, will accomplish more, and will have greater job satisfaction when schools take advantage of the power of computers. Some parents may also object to technology, fearing that an Orwellian world will engulf their children. This fear is also totally false.