ABSTRACT
Information comes in raw forms from many directions, and does not appear labelled with explanations. One of the underlying conceptual revelations of the interviews is the way in which sources of information are inadvertently revealed. In a world of facts, of tests and news, of information technology and communication, it is easy to forget the other influences on the way people form their minds, in all the disorder of emotional associations. The stereotypes that are the way of ordering information become the more strong. There have to be means of making sense of a plethora of information. School is an unimportant source of information compared with the masses of evidence about the world that is paraded on television. Most of the information that children acquire they acquire by chance in the sense that they happen to pull certain bits out of the accumulations of presentations before them, both factual and fictional.
