- Jun 13, 2007
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I think what makes the difference in some cases the difference was they had parents who, from birth, made the child realize that education is a priority. And they cut off the TV's, computers and gaming systems. Made them pick up a BOOK, as the parents themselves were avid readers. African and Asian students come to America and excell because their cultures valued education and hard work. Not style, but substance.
Which book?
I have the book The Age of Uncertainty by John Kenneth Galbraith. I bought it and read it in 1977. I think it is a great book and it still has the $15.95 price tag on it. The BOOK is bigger and weighs more than this computer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCHHAFyp9I0
Hardcover books are commonly $25 these days.
But there was a television series that the book was made for. I hadn't seen it in 20 years. But now they can be downloaded and watched with that computer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smFUjYKTGHk
Teach Yourself Electricity and Electronics by Stan Gibilisco Is a little heavier than The Age of Uncertainty. It's a softcover but has almost twice as many pages. But I also have an electronic version of it loaded on the Sylvania. It takes up 7.1 megabytes. The computer could hold more than TWO HUNDRED BOOKS that size. The computer can accept a EIGHT GIGABYTE SD card and that can hold another 1100 BOOKS.
From a purely technological perspective books could be obsolete but it will be a long time before people give up the habit.
The problem is what to load on the computers and kids getting their elders to stop pushing books instead of computers.
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