"Paedagogically suspect"

"(Giving every child a laptop) may actually be detrimental to the growth of creative and analytical abilities of the child", India's Education Secretary Sudeep Banerjee told the Planning Commission in a letter sent last month, according to The Hindu as he urged rejection of planned participation of the MIT Media Labs plan to build a $ 100 laptop.

Interesting coming from the place where software programmers are rock stars, where Bill Gates is treated better than George Bush, which has 60% of all CMM Level 5 certified sites in the world...