"Continued in their present patterns of fragmented unrelation,
our school curricula will insure a citizenry unable to understand
the cybernated world in which they live."

—Marshall McLuhan, 1964

(if you think McLuhan was wrong, spend 5 minutes reading YouTube comments or any random web forum)

Found in the Best of Creative Computing, Vol. 1 (1976) from Atari Archives (which has not just Atari, but other early computing magazines & books).

It's an eerie little time capsule. Vol. 1 is pre-Apple II, the first real home computer. Computers were relatively primitive tools used in science, business, industry, and experimental education, not ubiquitous shiny toys.

And yet even now, computing is almost totally absent from most education; web/desktop-based CAI (Computer-Assisted Instruction) still hasn't caught up to the PLATO computer system of the '60s-'80s, and is still based on the same repetitive drill or appallingly bad "educational" games that didn't work then, either.

As usual, I have no answers, only pointed questions.