Chris O'Hagan (C.M.Ohagan@derby.ac.uk)
Thu, 3 Dec 1998 10:29:10 +0000
From: "Chris O'Hagan" <C.M.Ohagan@derby.ac.uk> Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1998 10:29:10 +0000 Subject: Re: [ifets] Teachers and Technology Refusal and cabbages and k
Martin, how well would Blake's poetry be known without formal
education? We should remember that in his time all schools were
Church schools, and it's the doctrinaire repression of the innocent
spirit he hates most, not formal learning per se. His comments on
churches are even more riveting: eg the suggestion by one of his
'innocents' that people would worship better in an alehouse because
it is a warmer and happier place than the church (hmmm, shools as
well?) or the wonderful lines,
And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds,
And binding with briars my joys and desires.
And in 'Jerusalem' it is sometimes suggested that the 'dark Satanic
mills' are actually churches - factories of religion rather than
faith - because there were very few mills that fitted this
description in the 1770s, and all in the North, where Blake never
went, and none in Kent, where he lived.
Getting back to determinism, I don't know what other word to use if
the adoption of electronic room keys unfolds a particular pattern of
human interaction, and if this is seen as inevitable once the
electronic key is a given. If this behaviour is not 'embedded' in the
key, then are you suggesting hotels are free to 'choose' how to use
the key in some way?
Chris O'Hagan
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