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dingo_bat on April 16, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: OLPC’s $100 laptop was going to change the world

Have you clicked the link in my comment? Delivery of books is cheap in third world countries. OLPC was not targeting American students!

Also, you don't buy 100 books at once. A year in school will need about 10 books. Send the next 10 next year.

bluGill on April 17, 2018 [–]

My local library and schools constantly emphasize that reading your kid 1000 books before they are 5 is a key to success. (I suspect they are mistaking correlation for causation, but I have never checked)

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