28 Jul
2006
28 Jul
'06
5:41 p.m.
http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/75968
OLPC is not useful for the target audience. Classrooms and teachers is what we need. according to the HR development mandarins. -- "It may actually be detrimental to the growth of creative and analytical abilities of the child," the secretary added. Classrooms and teachers were more urgently needed than "fancy tools," Never mind that the schools already built exist on paper and the teachers are pure vapour. Same old logic about radio, tv and phones being luxury products "we need drinking water and medicine" went the refrain in a thankfully bygone era.
Rgds JTD