Educators might use models such as that of Vitorino de Feltre of Mantua
cross-disciplinary institutes to free them from the dogma of rigid academia
which prevents them from reaching through technology for greater understanding
of a rational scheme of the world. Educational practice should teach us how
to learn by employing the ubiquitous interdisciplinary tool of the computer.
True creativity lies in the management of knowledge, not in the production
of given objects of art, or tomes of discourse.
Precursors of multimedia and hypertext have existed for centuries. Throughout
the history of our culture, we have brought together creative energy in institutions,
from the cathedral to the library, which represent our highest aspirations.
The present strength of the computer is its ability to coalesce our energies
in the quest for enlightenment; its speed, flexibility, and strength in retention
of fact enhance what already has been embedded in the constant course of human
intelligence- the desire to create new meaning though relationships.
