 Foreword Welcome to Cyberschools' preview page. You can glimpse part of the Foreword's contents here. Authors Alvin and Heidi Toffler take a stand for new solutions to education problems in Cyberschools' foreword. Most of the world is dissatisfied with existing schools, colleges, and universities, they say. And, most proposed education innovations take for granted that educational problems can be solved within the existing framework. But, the Tofflers contend, it is no longer acceptable to use the traditional, factory-style school model to fix education's problems. New solutions are needed. Some of them can come as a result of the emerging convergence of information technologies. Today, "in public discourse, as in policy, 'Education' with a capital E is regarded as a separate, specific category of social activity. 'Media' are in another category. 'Computers' are in still another category. Yet in the real world the boundaries among these categories are melting away," the Tofflers point out. "Glenn Jones is a category buster," they continue. "We believe, as he does, that education cannot be brought into the Third Wave future so long as it is viewed as separate from both the media and cyberspace."
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