ABSTRACT
Artificial intelligence enthusiasts ‘talk about a mind that is mechanistic, finite, operating in real time’. To Matthew Arnold in his Culture and Anarchy they were the bawling masses determined to assert their rights, smashing what they liked, going where they liked. The twentieth century has been one of apparent educational innovation to sharpen the instructed opinion of the populace. A physical object such as a computer does not in itself mean anything. Young people of school age now have immediate access to a wide range of sources of information. Intelligence communities have always existed and are vital as tools for education and schooling. Intelligence communities of all kinds can be set within long historical traditions. Their political and educational dimensions seem inextricable. Many writers have described what has become known as the hidden curriculum of schooling. However, as many writers and researchers have argued, schooling is largely irrelevant to large sections of the population.
