Of course, if you are not literate enough to read what comes up on the screen, then we have a problem that is not going to be solved by Gore's vision from the top of Mount Nebo of a computer in every pot, or garage, or whatever. The problem of the students he has in mind has many dimensions. It has to do with, first of all, the atmosphere in the household in which they come to consciousness and then grow up. Outside the home, the quality of the local subculture is important, too. And, of course, the quality of the school and the classroom is important.
Safety is much more important than fresh paint or class size.
And alertness in the classroom is important, too. What is possible in the school is heavily influenced by what has happened at home and what happens in the neighborhood. Finally, we have the quality of instruction itself. All such questions, of course, are intransigently resisted by the teachers' unions, the American Federation of Teachers, and the National Education Association, from which, again of course, Gore receives lavish and undivided support. Up on his mountain, Gore is just blowing smoke.