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Assumptions Kill Creativity

3 September, 2014 by James Lawther 8 Comments

Innovation in reading

The population of India is well over 1.2 billion people. Second only to China in size. Roughly a quarter of that population can’t read or write. Or, depending on who, how and when you count, there are something like 300 million illiterate people in India. This is a problem that is worth fixing. But how? Teaching 300 million […]

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