I recall a Tomorrow’s World programme showing a family in 2000, witht he boys going upstairs to get their lessons off the tv (PCs were still in the future) rather than to school. A panel member got very sniffy about that, insisting it could never happen because “Education is a group activity.” He may have been right for the majority of the population (even if for the wrong reason) but there are enough homeschoolers around today to go a long way toward refuting him.
Homeschooling probably dates to the dawn of humanity, and education via the internet is a more recent development. But I wonder if this Tomorrow’s World (1965–2003) panel member was discounting even the existing educational TV programming of the time… like Sesame Street (1969–) and Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom (1963–).