Maybe we can make use of the OLPC project not as a stop-gap solution,
but as a component of a bigger plan. We can have the general direction
and plan and implement it a step at a time. Probably the key is
considering each oppurtunity as a part of a general direction, with us
here helping and still willing to help. Others may see it as nonsense,
I see it as a very good project and I'm pretty sure it won't stop in the
distribution of the laptops.
Until we think of small bits of solutions geared toward a generalized
goal as part of that plan, with the current status of the government and
the general populace, we surely won't get nowhere. We'll just be left
here, thinking and planning in eternity.
An oppurtunity is here. Rather than spending billions for a very few
greedy people, we may spend it for the OLPC now, then we may have a
jumpstart for the bigger plan we all have in mind.
I just hope somebody of significance can hear us and consider, thinking
about the future generation, thinking about my people.
Dean Michael Berris wrote:
On 1/9/07, Mhac Janapin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Pathetic isn't it? But there is still hope though because not
everybody is contented with our current educational system. :-)
Unfortunately, I would like to think that the education problem cannot
be solved by stop-gap solutions. Yes, definitely we can solve it one
step at a time, but without a general direction and plan, we're
doomed.
A $100 laptop might help, but without the basic building blocks to
actually understand how to use these laptops, they'd be pretty much
useless. Although one can argue that children (and I mean young
children) can learn to play CounterStrike outside of schools shows
that they have the incredible capacity to learn computers, that's just
pretty much what they have -- and unless we teach them at an early age
of how to read and how important reading is, they're going to get
stuck playing CounterStrike instead of learning how to manage
companies, create jobs, bring glory to the country, and be the leaders
of the next generations.
What the education system needs is a concrete and sincere plan of
uplifting the state of education in our country, and not some stop-gap
solutions which might work in the short run but not have long-term
goals in mind. The education system needs money, people who care, and
a plan to pull our children out of the gutter -- and people willing to
work with that plan.
Until that's done, no number of laptops can solve the education
problem our country has been facing for the longest time.
HTH
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