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2. Questioning “General” Education: Marvin Minsky has written another essay in his series about how our computers could help to advance our children’s educational development. The new essay begins with a quote from George Pólya.
2. Questioning “General” Education: Marvin Minsky has written another essay in his series about how our computers could help to advance our children’s educational development. The new essay begins with a quote from George Pólya.


    It is better to solve one problem five different ways,
:''It is better to solve one problem five different ways,''
    than to solve five different problems one way.
:''than to solve five different problems one way.''


See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Questioning_General_Education. Previous essays are  at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Marvin_Minsky_essays.
See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Questioning_General_Education. Previous essays are  at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Marvin_Minsky_essays.


3. Knight News Challenge: Sugar Labs applied for four Knight Foundation grants (all four a linked to from the DeploymentTeam page in the wiki).
3. Knight News Challenge: Sugar Labs applied for four Knight Foundation grants (all four a linked to from the DeploymentTeam page in the wiki).


=== Community jams, meetups, and meetings ===
=== Community jams, meetups, and meetings ===