Comment make 4 kids share 1, and they teach themselves (Score 2, Interesting) 152
as proven by Sugata Mitra (of Hole in the Wall project fame), if you get rid of the teachers and provide one computer per 4 children, and let the kids collaborate, they teach one another
http://www.ted.com/talks/sugata_mitra_the_child_driven_education.html
The quote from Arthur C Clark is particularly telling: Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.