The One Laptop Per Child Project

i think it teas us up for the beginning of a conversation about education. i want to tell you a story about nicholas negripante. He and his team went to two villages in ethiopia, one called wanche that's located at 11 thousand feet above sea level. In this village, the kids there have never seen a street sign packaging all of the detritis of modern western culture. They taught a couple of the elders in the village how to use a solar charger. And with that, they left a giant sealed box inside the village. This was not a laptop, a tablet. A tablet won for every kid in the village. Even if there had been instructions