Spreuken over Onderwijs

If a child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.

I've come to the frightening conclusioin that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It's my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess a tremendous power to make a child's life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a child humanized or de-humanized.

So when we make this available, it is an education project, not a laptop project. The digital divide is a learning divide - digital is the means through which children learn leaning. This is, we believe, the way to do it.

Any previous doubt that a very-low-cost laptop could be made for education in the developing world has just gone away.

It's difficult to recruit math teachers because their value is so high outside of education.