From Kay Bagon
The article about fibre-optic networks delivering “super-teachers” to every classroom – in other words, “distance learning” (Forum, 28 January) – puts me in mind of the story (largely apocryphal, I suspect) of the professor who was indisposed on the day of a vital lecture.
In order not to disappoint his students he arranged to make a recording of his lecture and play the video to them. So successful did this venture prove to be that he resolved to implement this labour-saving teaching technique on a permanent basis.
Deciding one week to make an unannounced visit to the lecture theatre, in order to assess for himself how well the system was working, he was greatly surprised to find the room entirely empty – save for his video recorder, surrounded by 25 other VCRs.
