John Kintree wrote: > On Saturday 02 February 2008 09:05 pm, Sameer Verma wrote: > >> Keep in mind >> that a good proportion of the billion plus people in India (the target >> of the article) are quite well fed. Many of them just don't care about >> the rest. >> > > Understood. And, I think that many of the people who express opposition to > the XO laptop on the grounds that the $200 apiece could be better spent on > food do not actually care about hungry children either. I think their real > reason for opposition is they want to maintain the current structure of power > in which a relatively small percent of the population makes and imposes > decisions on the rest of us. > Regards, > John Kintree > > John, You've hit the nail right on the head! Imagine a channel that bypasses the current "education" structure and allows students to discover much more about history than what their schools want them to know. For instance, all through my history classes in India (where I went to school) never did we learn about the involvement of Indians with the Irish and Germans. All we read was about the Indians and the British. Imagine my surprise when I read about it the first time. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu-German_Conspiracy
Now, I am not sure why my school books didn't address the subject. Maybe it was too much material, or perhaps it didn't serve the agenda of authors. I'll never know. Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Information Systems San Francisco State University San Francisco CA 94132 USA http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://opensource.sfsu.edu/ _______________________________________________ Olpc-open mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-open
