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INFORMAL instruction, which need be neither illogical nor discrete, nor even so completely popularised in its presentation as to lack essential accuracy of fact and deduction, is perhaps as vital a force in the cultural development of a nation as its formal educational system. The new power of the broadcast message gives to the world a new university without matriculation and, what is perhaps more attractive, without examinations; a university the teaching of which is not only extra-mural but is also offered as a free gift to anyone who cares to go to the trifling expense and trouble of accepting it. As such it is in no sense a competitor with schools and colleges, nor ever can be; indeed, its success in Great Britain has been largely due to the co-operation which has been forthcoming from professional educators and their institutions.
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Education by Radio. Nature 122, 157–158 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/122157a0
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