ABSTRACT
Some fundamental aspects of experience have changed, for most people, over the past 150 years. We simply need to be reminded of the evolving landscape of experience since the Industrial Revolution to contemplate how many aspects of life that we take for granted are new. The site of most attention, and the one which has most recently entered people's everyday lives, is that of electronic communication as a result of the development of microprocessors. The rise of institutionalized life is demonstrated in the schooling system. Students enter a school on order to attain certain kinds of knowledge. This is a different kind from that experienced at home and on the Internet. School knowledge is controlled through the organization of groups, in a shared collective endeavour to receive the same information at the same time. Individualization comes in the form of testing.
