[wsfii-discuss] olpc presentation

Tue Jan 3 16:20:13 UTC 2006

Karel Kulhavy a écrit :
> On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 11:17:09PM +0100, miluz wrote:
>> Karel Kulhavy a écrit :
>>
>>> Kids don't think like economists to plan secured future. They are social
>>> animals (homo sapiens). 
>> All children in africa dreamed about school.
> 
> Question is if the content of their dream is realistic. To be realistic
> they would have to dream about boredom, bullying, lots of wasted time,
> and a bit of education.
Even they ignore what school means - you can't imagine how fast and how
far informations are flowing in the world - they know what a pencil and
a paper are (really fabulous drawings anyway. We are only trying to make
the same today).

Children are living in a world of dreams, do you remember?
Do you really think that they dream about prostitution, drugs, violence,
scare, hungry, cold,...? That's all our "developped" countries have to
give them for instance. I'm ashamed, sometime afraid, of what they are
thinking of us.
> 
>>
>> Joke for joke:
>> In "Darwing Nightmare", do you think that the prostitute questionned has
>> a single chance one day to learn computer sciences as she would like to?
> 
> And do they have realistic expectations for computer science? Don't they
> think that computer scientist is just a well-paid secretary?
When you will see the film - I hope for you - you will see her eyes when
she says that. Far away from money, power, all things that she knows
perfectly... only freedom.

Don't forget that contempt is the only one feeling entirely shared.

Yours,
M.
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> CL<
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