Chapter 2 - Why not the best?

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The 13 steps needed for a 21^st century education system

   Imagine a 21st century community, only a few years from now.
      Every student has his or her own laptop computer. 
      Every home has its own combined computer - television set at a cost of only $300, or possibly much less.
      Every home and every student is connected to the Internet.
      Every person, at almost any age, can have instant access to the world's best teachers in any subject.
      Each can also select at random from the world's best libraries, interactive science museums and art galleries.
      Each is linking up regularly with others around the world, designing their own electronic games to teach their own favorite subjects.
      Every new parent is trained to be able to develop each child's fantastic early potential, to be able to identify different temperaments, and different learning and thinking styles.
      Every four-year-old can read, write, spell, count, add, subtract, multiply, divide, compose her own stories, draw, paint - and speak three or four languages - but they've learned all this with fun and games.
      The health of every child from birth is regularly monitored to ensure his eyesight, hearing and other senses are in great "learning order".
      Every five- or six-year-old starts school with an equal opportunity to develop to its full potential.
      School itself is the best party in town: a base from which to explore the whole wide world of experience and knowledge.

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