11.  If what each child takes away from school is its effective curriculum, then the starting point of an enquiry should be the right of access which each pupil has "to different areas of human knowledge and experience".

12.  The spiritual area is concerned with everything in human knowledge or experience that is connected with or derives from a sense of God or of gods.

13.  One might however comment that it is possibly the case that those theologians whose views are now quoted as the word of God, or whose theological reasoning is taken over without question, may not have believed theology to exist independently of human knowledge or social conditions.

14.  Thus conservatives - try as they may to isolate their theology in a cocoon separate from human knowledge, culture and society-are in trouble.

15.  The operational basis of such systems rests on the incorporation of human expert knowledge within them and the manipulation of this to solve problems.

16.  The advantages to an organisation of eliciting and codifying human expert knowledge are:

17.  ONe of these was the notion of compiling human knowledge as sets of "rules" that could be manipulated and controlled by an "inference engine", the purpose being to combine human type reasoning with the processing speed of the computer and by doing so to provide output that was similar to that of a human expert.

18.  However, few true expert systems exist, but many extremely useful systems that utilise human knowledge but don't necessarily perform at the expert level are in regular operation.

19.  The capability of being able to codify, store and build upon human expert knowledge has profound organisational advantages in the way personnel can be both trained and supported.

20.  Dietrich Bonhoeffer once commented that "religious people speak of God when human knowledge has come to an end, or when human resources fail...