This situation also tends to create a generation gap. Teachers have to make great efforts to keep up with technological progress. It is difficult for teachers to provide guidance to the young because of the incomprehensibility and the unpredictability of the impact of a new technology and its effects on the lives of the young. When I was a child, my parents and my teachers were a very natural source of information and knowledge. In today's information-oriented society, there are many other sources of information.
Television offers only a passive form of learning.
Nevertheless, the Internet can be a very important educational tool. Its applications will lead to changes in teaching style in the schools. The theater style classroom may become obsolete. The school itself is now gradually losing its position as the principal center of all knowledge. The situation which is now developing deserves careful attention before taking proper steps.