Much of today's motivation for the education of children is vocational -- to prepare children for the job market.
Another good metaphor is Marshall McLuhan's: "I don't know who discovered water but it wasn't a fish!". He meant we are the fish and the water is our beliefs/assumptions, most of which have been with us so pervasively as to have disappeared from view. When we are "being rational", most of the time our logic is quite narrowly tied to invisible contexts.
Having a writing system makes it possible to discuss things in a way and "at a length and depth" that oral communication finds difficult to impossible.
// may be writing articles, blogs and letters are the way to explain complex things to make people understand well, than oral communication. Like, what money is for?
In American schools today, parents and school boards would fire any teacher who was found to be illiterate (though they don't try very hard to find them), but are quite happy to have their children taught by teachers who don't understand even one important idea of mathematics and science. In part, this is because American parents and school boards are mostly composed of citizens who are the product of American education and have no strong background in areas that were poorly taught when they were in school. And the teachers are also mostly a product of this poor education process, so most of them have no idea of what is being missed. And so on, generation after generation.
// so true in the context of India as well.
The Internet is now starting to bring the libraries of powerful ideas into the home, but most people will still need the discernment and the hints to provide the motivation for exploring ideas that require some effort to learn.
The most important thing about powerful inexpensive personal computers is that they form a new kind of reading and writing medium that allows some of the most important powerful ideas to be discussed and played with and learned than any book.
We are interested in helping children learn to think better and deeper than most adults can.
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