The U.K.'s Open University, which used television to transmit lessons to students, enrolled its first students in 1971.
But by taking that fabled "Long March through the institutions", some of those former students have positioned themselves in academia, and are transmitting valuable lessons and inspiration to a new generation.
Relations have become so frosty that the Vatican "rowed back on a prior written agreement" to take up observer status on an international organisation dedicated to remembering the Holocaust and transmitting its lessons to the future, according to Julieta Valls Noyes, the number two at the American embassy to the Holy See.
As if parroting the marketing copy in the college's brochure, alums overwhelmingly endorse Reed's "conference" style of learning, in which lessons transmitted in lectures are later reinforced in smaller groups where students engage in spirited debates.
Confucius represented his teachings as lessons transmitted from antiquity.
They included two teenagers here, each of them enrolled in an Advanced Placement government and politics class in which the lessons were transmitted through electronic text and animated short films, with grades reported via e-mail.
As the film, which will have its New York premiere at 9 p.m. on Friday at the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center at Lincoln Center, makes clear, those lessons were transmitted not in a conservatory classroom but in bars, clubs, kitchens and even alleys.
The question, of course, is both private and public, because "history, even scalding personal history, doesn't always transmit the expected lessons".
It was the story of her life — "Listen to me," she would plead — and I knew a vital lesson was being transmitted, even if I didn't know, as a child, what that lesson was.
It was a night that changed her and taught her a dire lesson: "Shame can be sexually transmitted".
