"We left the boxes in the village. Closed. Taped shut. No instruction, no human being. I thought, the kids will play with the boxes! Within four minutes, one kid not only opened the box, but found the on/off switch. He'd never seen an on/off switch. He powered it up. Within five days, they were using 47 apps per child per day. Within two weeks, they were singing ABC songs [in English] in the village. And within five months, they had hacked Android. Some idiot in our organization or in the Media Lab had disabled the camera! And they figured out it had a camera, and they hacked Android."
An example of absolutely pure unschooling. This little study makes my heart glow. Partly because it is fun and gratifying to participate in a cultural revolution. And mostly because children are just so wonderfully smart and capable. Thank goodness the adult world is finally waking up to the truth.
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