Mr Klein, a former journalist, had his epiphany while he was trying to set up the cheap educational computer for his seven-year-old cousin.
One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), MIT professor Nicholas Negroponte's non-profit effort aimed at putting cheap educational laptops into the hands of developing world schoolchildren, is working on an upgrade to its so-called XO computer, once known as the "hundred-dollar laptop".
Designing a cheap, efficient educational laptop as part of a flexible learning system for kids in poor countries is a bold attempt to address that.
As cheap as the Educational two-reelers were, they allowed him a certain degree of creative freedom — something he would not know at his next studio, Columbia, where his work was supervised by the producer of the Three Stooges shorts.
E-learning is a cheap and growing educational tool, proper for large organizations and accessible to personnel in rural areas.
BRUCE W. JOHNSON Hyannis Port, Mass., Feb. 1, 2013 To the Editor: Arthur C. Brooks extols the virtues of an online education, which for him proved to be a much cheaper and apparently more successful educational endeavor than the "unedifying year in college" he spent in a traditional classroom.
The idea that you do this simply because it is cheaper is failing to understand what the educational arguments are for the three to 18 experience".
One participant suggested more educational emphasis on the simpler, cheaper drugs for hypertension to counter the promotion of the expensive ones.
This educational tool is the perfect, cheap apocalypse survival kit.
But why should schools and students bother with an annual subscription of nearly $50 a year, when educational CD-ROMs are dirt cheap?
