In his 1983-1984 annual report Bok investigated
the future of using computers in the classroom.
While acknowledging that computers could become
key in teaching rote material like foreign
language tenses and mathematical formulas, the
president wrote that computers would be useless in
teaching more open-ended fields such as history,
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