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November 16, 2005
Another Professor with no sense of history
"It will change . . . the way children everywhere think about themselves in relation to the world," said Seymour Papert, a professor emeritus of education and media technology at MIT, believing that the result may be less violence and dissension as kids plug into education and international culture.Well, evidence of the 20th century aside. Germany was the most literate country in the world . Education doesn't make people better - it makes them more efficient. That doesn't reduce violence and dissension -- it just makes it more murdereous.
This is all in praise of a promised $100 laptop to revolutionize education in developing countries. I always read articles like this and think that if computers are so great why don't we do something about making them cheaper here, first?
Posted by CrankyProfessor at November 16, 2005 6:59 AM