In interesting, yet not all that surprising news, children may be just as clever as we all orginally believed.

In 1999, Dr. Sugata Mitra conducted an experiment where he left a Window’s computer, connected to the Internet, near a slum wall in New Delhi. Soon after, he discovered that the children who had happened upon it had managed to teach themselves how to surf the web and use the machine’s applications.

This just goes to prove that computers are becoming tools that everyone, regardless of their technical expertise, may one day be able to use to improve their lives. In a more general sense, it just goes to show that there is more to learning than brick and mortar. Take a look at the PBS video found here.

[via Signal Without Noise].

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