Seymour Papert, in The Children's Machine: [O]n my reckoning, the fraction of human knowledge that is in the curriculum is well under a millionth and diminishi

Seymour Papert, in The Children's Machine: [O]n my reckoning, the fraction of human knowledge that is in the curriculum is well under a millionth and diminishing fast. I simply cannot escape from the question: Why that millionth in particular?