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The New Teachers by Isaac Asimov

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The percentage of older people in the world is increasing and that of younger people decreasing, and this trend will continue if the birthrate should drop and medicine continue to extend the average life span. In order to keep older people imaginative and creative and to prevent them from becoming an ever-growing drag ion a shrinking pool of creative young, I have recommended frequently that our educational system be remodeled and that education be considered a lifelong activity. But how can this be done? Where will all the teachers come from? Who says, however, that all teachers must be human beings or even animate? Suppose that over the next century communications satellites become numerous and more sophisticated than those we've placed in space so far. Suppose that in place of radio waves the more capacious laser beam of visible light becomes the chief communications medium. Under these circumstances, there would be room for many millions of separate channels for voice and picture,

The New Teachers The percentage of older people in the world is increasing and that of younger people decreasing, and this trend will continue if the birthrate should drop and medicine continue to extend the average life span. In order to keep older people imaginative and creative and to prevent them from becoming an ever-growing drag ion a shrinking pool of creative young, I have recommended frequently that our educational system be remodeled and that education be considered a lifelong activity. But how can this be done? Where will all the teachers come from? Who says, however, that all teach

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