Recently, I came across an article lifted from the The New York Times of October 24, 2011, which says the following:

“It might come as a surprise to know that many of the hi-tech gurus send their children to schools that do not allow computers – people like the chief technology officer of eBay and employees of Silicon Valley giants like Google, Apple, Yahoo and Hewlett-Packard.

“They deliberately send their kids to those schools that use pens, paper, blackboard, chalk and workbooks and where not a computer is to be found anywhere.

“These schools even frown on computer use at home. The super-tech parents feel kids learn better and deeper with simple hands-on approaches.”

Maybe we should follow suit and go back to the importance of the 3 Rs (reading, writing and arithmatic) and stimulate the real rudiments of prime education instead of giving our children a ‘tablet’ to swipe and play, in the process leading to lazy mathematical thinking and imagination.