India rejects M.I.T. proposal for one laptop, one child
M.I.T. Professor Negroponte proposed to sell India laptops for $100 each to bring high tech into the classroom. This was quickly rejected by local education ministers, implying a pateral attitude on the plan’s developers and further claiming research on the efficacy of computers and education is not well-established. More simply, as Ted Turner has said ‘What is the point of a computer if you have no electricity, or as Bertolt Brecht once said, “First, food, then votes.” Interesting how smart capitalists and smart socialists often think alike. India Times Article.
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