One Laptop per Child?

So it’s been a while that Nicholas Negroponte made a brilliant move towards a better world – providing children in the poorer countries with a laptop each, to give them new opportunities and experiences of the developed world.

Before we start admiring his great deeds, here’s an inspiring line worth considering.
‘Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime’.

What has Nocholas Negroponte accomplished? Yes, for sure, he provided the children with a new, revolutionary tool (as he calls them ‘the new pencil’). But who’s there to educate them? The teachers themselves do not understand how to run the system, and so the laptops have now just become a fancy toy that they like to PLAY with.

But it seems that he still hasn’t realized the problems of OLPC. He is now making tablets for children in the poorer countries.

Nick, I admire you for the good cause, but I think you should reconsider this project.