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/^t/In the former times the masses sought knowledge in the Bible and among the educated elite, namely the priests, monks. The knowledge derived straight from religion what the church imposed was holy and unshakeable. Similarly, television teaches us everything; starting with cooking, ending in morality. Moreover, it is the main adviser, people no longer go to their parsons or priests to ask where "to invest" their money. The advertisement branch is in fact a separate industry, it will always show you the right way. Furthermore, children are brought up in front of the small screen. It is not the morel values of their parents, consequently, but the moral values of the screen that are transferred to the children and automatically adopted by them. Is television not as powerful as religion once used to be? The right to educate the youth makes it an extremely influential institution, I daresay its power in this field even transcends that of education.