I may be old-fashioned, but what children need are not laptops and other fancy educational aids. What they need are colorful, attention catching books, airy well-lit classrooms, hygienic food, clean toilet facilities and above all highly motivated teachers. Provide these basics of education and you will see illiteracy vanish from the face of India within a generation. You cannot expect children who do'nt know where the next morsel of food is coming from to stay focussed on their laptops.
RE:Laptops for children
by azmat khan on Aug 07, 2008 11:41 AM Permalink
Very correct Manoj. Why such schools, I was a student at one of the premier colleges of Mumbai, and not once in three years there did I enter the toilet and found water available. So one can only imagine the condition of some non-decrepit school in some remote corner of India. In fact, such is the lack of intelligence among our education officials that premier exams such as the IAS and others are held at centres where there are no basic sanitation facilities. How can one be expected to do well in such cases, especially considering the problems that women face? To top it all, when I appeared for the IAS interview at Dholpur House in Delhi, there were no toilet facilities there. Can you beat that? This is India, where such grandiose plans have often failed. Anyway, who knows, let's see, if this OLPC scheme works well, then all the good for India. But focus on the basics first.
Re: Laptops for children
by ravi suri on Nov 04, 2008 10:41 PM Permalink
Manoj, there are some schools where every child has these laptops.. they are deprived children but you should see what they can do.. in some of them i find that slum children develop better common sense than the kids going to the expensive public shools.. may be there is something to it.. why close your mind?
