If we really offered our children some great future - oriented content (such as, for example, that they could learn about nanotechnology, bioethics, genetic
medicine, and neuroscience in neat interactive ways from real experts), and they could develop their skills in programming, knowledge filtering, using their connectivity, and maximizing their hardware, and that they could do
so with cutting -
edge, powerful, miniaturized, customizable, and one - to - one technology, I bet they would complete the «standard» curriculum in half the time it now takes, with high test scores all around.