Over time, I came to think of this as technology's
Law of Amplification: While technology helps education where it's already doing well, technology does little for mediocre educational systems; and in dysfunctional schools, it can cause outright harm.
By this we do not mean just the temporal development that historical criticism discerns in the redaction
of these codes, the evolution
of moral ideas that may be traced out from the first Decalogue to the
Law of the Covenant, on the one hand, and from the Decalogue itself through the restatements and
amplifications of the book
of Deuteronomy to the new synthesis
of the «Holiness Code» in the book
of Leviticus and the legislation subsequent to Ezra, on the other; more important than this development
of the content
of the
Law is the transformation in the relationship between the faithful believer and the
Law.
(See FAQ's on the Frankel
Law Firm website relating to turnover Issues for further
amplification of the duties
of landlords upon turnover
of an apartment in New York City.)