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• The chief controversies revolve around how to interpret the impact of schooling.
• Automation technologies and their application may render certain currently taught skills and knowledge redundant while increasing the need for other curricula – such as material related to the application of automation.
• Nevertheless, some 260 million children are still out of primary and secondary school.

A switch to a virtual learning experience is particularly challenging for families that cannot afford the proper technology, such as laptops, printers, or a reliable Internet connection. When schools close, parents are often asked to facilitate the learning of children at home and can struggle to perform this task. This is especially true for parents with limited education and resources. Students who require special education found it difficult to progress through the curriculum without tools and support that they require. Polling suggests that schools that serve a majority of students of color are far less likely to have access to the technology needed for remote learning.

According to apperception or association theories, the mind is initially a blank slate and learns about the world by forming associations between ideas and experiences. This happens by presenting the learner with a stimulus, associating this stimulus with the desired response, and solidifying this stimulus-response pair. Many large university institutions are now starting to offer free or almost free full courses, through open education, such as Harvard, MIT and Berkeley teaming up to form edX. For the subfield of formal epistemology and computer science, see Formal learning theory.

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Primitive people in some cultures regard the body of knowledge constituting the initiation curriculum as most essential to their tribal membership. Within this essential curriculum, religious instruction takes the most prominent place. A primitive person, whose culture is the totality of his universe, has a relatively fixed sense of cultural continuity and timelessness.