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Classroom automation may foreshadow an end to schoolhouses. Lessons would be televised to students "going to school" at home, where their work would be done and transmitted to a control center for correction and grading.

Dr. Donald E. P. Smith of the University of Michigan believes teaching machines will appear in all classrooms before long.

A typical one projects questions in one panel, then, after an answer is written in a second panel, the right solution appears in still a third.

Such machines are now intended for classrooms, but application of similar principles to educational TV would make schoolhouses a thing of the past.

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