For me, it does not 'miss' if (the Potteries Thinkbelt study) goes into the archive, not as an example of how railway carriages can be used for teaching, but as one of the most powerful question marks ever placed against the architecture of university education.

Roy Landau
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"If" is a word that is used a lot in the English language. Not only is it a question, but it also implies a possibility. That is why "if" can be so powerful. It can be used as a way to find the truth and find out what really matters.

If something does not matter, we can simply say it doesn't matter. However, if something does mean something then we say that it "does matter". In the case of the study, it was not enough to just believe that passenger seats could be used for teaching - it needed to be proved.

After years of research, the architects from the University of Liverpool came up with a carriages that would make people sit on a small space and learn at the same time.

Source: The Square Book

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