hard to argue against someone who is doing such great work in Nepal but I thought Bryan overplayed the local factors too much:<br><br><div style="margin-left: 40px;">10) Open Source software critical to high quality education – education
has to be very customised, to the kids, the teacher, the environment
and the country – not something you can design in New York city and
will fit another country<br><a href="http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/2009/04/olpc-nepal-project-overview.html">http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/2009/04/olpc-nepal-project-overview.html</a><br><br></div>The counterbalance to that is that The Enlightenment is what made us, what created modernity, what transformed diverse cultures into our modern culture<br>
<br>I hope it doesn't become unfashionable to say that modernity is a good thing<br>see<br><a href="http://learningevolves.wikispaces.com/nonUniversals">http://learningevolves.wikispaces.com/nonUniversals</a><br><br>