This comment by Nicholas Negroponte was in response to criticism of the layout of the One Laptop Per Child prototype. I agree that we need to stop training and start educating kids!
"In fact, one of the saddest but most common conditions in elementary school computer labs (when they exist in the developing world), is the children are being trained to use Word, Excel and PowerPoint," Negroponte wrote in an e-mail interview. "I consider that criminal, because children should be making things, communicating, exploring, sharing, not running office automation tools."
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