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With The Visual Communicator the Laboratory for Liberal Learning will seek to develop this emerging use of our artistic heritage as a means for imparting knowledge and understanding of the human past. We propose to develop through the Laboratory two videodiscs, one devoted to the evolving ideas of childhood and youth in Western culture since the high middle ages and another dedicated to illuminating the changing rationalized organization of the everyday world during the same period. These discs would each consist of some 50,000 reproductions, each dated, captioned, and carefully indexed. In addition, a database management program would be designed, treating each reproduction as a record, so that students can navigate through the whole collection according to the diverse items in the index and the innumerable permutations and combinations of these items.

Two main uses for The Visual Communicator are probable, one as a tool of scholarly research and the other as a teaching aid.... [The manuscript breaks off here and the draft was never completed.]ß</p~~><!-- InstanceEndEditable --~~>

Two main uses for The Visual Communicator are probable, one as a tool of scholarly research and the other as a teaching aid.... [The manuscript breaks off here and the draft was never completed.]

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	<p>With <i>The Visual Communicator</i> the Laboratory for Liberal Learning will seek to develop this emerging use of our artistic heritage as a means for imparting knowledge and understanding of the human past. We propose to develop through the Laboratory two videodiscs, one devoted to the evolving ideas of childhood and youth in Western culture since the high middle ages and another dedicated to illuminating the changing rationalized organization of the everyday world during the same period. These discs would each consist of some 50,000 reproductions, each dated, captioned, and carefully indexed. In addition, a database management program would be designed, treating each reproduction as a record, so that students can navigate through the whole collection according to the diverse items in the index and the innumerable permutations and combinations of these items.</p>		<p>With <i>The Visual Communicator</i> the Laboratory for Liberal Learning will seek to develop this emerging use of our artistic heritage as a means for imparting knowledge and understanding of the human past. We propose to develop through the Laboratory two videodiscs, one devoted to the evolving ideas of childhood and youth in Western culture since the high middle ages and another dedicated to illuminating the changing rationalized organization of the everyday world during the same period. These discs would each consist of some 50,000 reproductions, each dated, captioned, and carefully indexed. In addition, a database management program would be designed, treating each reproduction as a record, so that students can navigate through the whole collection according to the diverse items in the index and the innumerable permutations and combinations of these items.</p>

	<p>Two main uses for <i>The Visual Communicator</i> are probable, one as a tool of scholarly research and the other as a teaching aid.... [The manuscript breaks off here and the draft was never completed.]ß</p~~><!-- #EndLibraryItem --><!-- InstanceEndEditable --~~>		<p>Two main uses for <i>The Visual Communicator</i> are probable, one as a tool of scholarly research and the other as a teaching aid.... [The manuscript breaks off here and the draft was never completed.]</p>