"Rather than try to bring a lot of infrastructure to them and expect them to learn how to use the Internet, the idea was to make a technology that even Grandma could use, figuring that Grandma could probably walk up to a box and push a button."
VOA: special.2009.10.12
Yet many of the European students - especially the women - come here tolearn Arabic and more about Islam, ratherthantolearn about France or indeed to become imams.
Modern education systems deserve much of the blame, both for fostering the belief that education ends when a person leaves school and for its emphasis on being right ratherthan on how tolearn from mistakes.