> Hey, don't underestimate it. Protestant Europe got a big literacy boost from the Gutenberg Bible. I was responding to your comment saying "that was the origi

> Hey, don't underestimate it. Protestant Europe got a big literacy boost from the Gutenberg Bible. I was responding to your comment saying "that was the original hope with print, radio and TV. So we mostly get scandal sheets, soap operas and reality TV"! I'm fully aware there's major benefits that have come from those mediums. > And if you dig around the writings around the time that radio and (later) TV got started, you'll see plenty of hopeful plans for universal education. Again, you were the one who said it didn't pan out, and you implied the only reason they didn't was because <quote>"What we learn from history is that we don't learn from history", as some wag put it.</quote>. My comment was pointing out that the reason has to be more than just that -- thus the challenge to come up with a proposal that could actually work.