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Posts: 1,749
Join Date: May 2005
Location: , Wisconsin, USA
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20-11-07, 05:00 PM
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Originally Posted by rachie
Ideally they could have done with having more textbooks or computers in schools but that was not to be. I cannot really say I support this. I would not support my sister giving her 10 year old a computer of their own either.
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Text book publishers change books just to make money. Electronic text books don't wear out. A good old text book may be better than the new crappy ones. So a good old text book in electronic form could be used by millions of kids for centuries. Calculus and Newtonian physics are not going to change. The way electricity works is not going to change. The way atoms are constructed and how chemistry works is not going to change. So good electronics text books and instructional software can and probably will change the world.
That laptop has 2 GB of storage. That is 100 times the size of my first hard drive. That could hold more than 1000 BOOKS. Printed text books are so obsolete it ain't funny.
The question is are adults going to supply kids and point them at worthwhile stuff? Most young kids probably can't recognize it on their own. Let's face it, countries like England and the United States could have created recommended reading lists for kids and had them in libraries decades ago. Why haven't they done it? The control of the distribution of knowledge is part of maintaining an economically class structured society. They don't want to make important knowledge cheap and easy to get.
Black Americans are more stingy with knowledge than White people.
This p0rn business is just a trivial excuse from prudes. Find and tell the grammar school kids about some good, useful, interesting and fun stuff to learn and see how much time they waste on p0rn. 
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