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On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Brendan wrote: > I actually have some experience with distance learning...but that's so beside > the point. > > I think you are going REALLY far away from the core points...we were talking > about cheap laptops and how they planned to implement them. Great lets sum it up quickly. Kids who not otherwise be able to learn would be able to get up to date text quickly. They would be able to get enough information to research other subjects and get that information as well. It would equalize them and give them an educated out of the poverty they live in. That is a good thing - black and white, even implemented poorly. I do not think I missed the points, in fact I hit everyone of them. Society needs people that are able to learn enough to get a particular job done properly and quickly - the internet helps enable that. Please pardon my grammar, although I am college educated, my folks aren't. When other students, whose parents were college educated, needed help with subjects they could get it at home. Thats a benefit you had, many do not. The internet and computers can benefit those people. Maybe thats the real point here. Enabling someone to get an education where there they otherwise could not. Thats powerful stuff. Anthony
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