I don’t know whether this is general knowledge or not, but questions like this have empirical answers.
We can look at how well providing children with a certain kind of primary educations fairs against providing children with a laptop as an intervention on aggregate.
Sure, the project may have found that teaching children ‘stuff’ isn’t that useful, but are laptops consistently useful either? Just the other day my laptop kicked the bucket and I lost a bunch of data. Now, my remaining laptop doesn’t have a working headphone jack for me to listen to lectures. And, the keys are broken. I can certainly gain more from a new laptop than more formal education. But, that’s just an anecdote. It’s not as evidence-based as answers to this class of question can be when making decisions about optimal philanthropy.
I don’t know whether this is general knowledge or not, but questions like this have empirical answers.
We can look at how well providing children with a certain kind of primary educations fairs against providing children with a laptop as an intervention on aggregate.
Sure, the project may have found that teaching children ‘stuff’ isn’t that useful, but are laptops consistently useful either? Just the other day my laptop kicked the bucket and I lost a bunch of data. Now, my remaining laptop doesn’t have a working headphone jack for me to listen to lectures. And, the keys are broken. I can certainly gain more from a new laptop than more formal education. But, that’s just an anecdote. It’s not as evidence-based as answers to this class of question can be when making decisions about optimal philanthropy.