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Elementary Foundation <Tab/>In David Gelernter's essay titled "Unplugged", he expresses that computers should be in schools and with the right application be invaluable to education. Also, he attacks the way calculators and computer programs accentuate bad habits students already have. What's more is that many of these students are cheating themselves out of learning and understanding the real meaning behind their core curriculum of math and grammar skills. In elementary …

…It should be every teacher and parent's obligation to teach children about the responsible use of computers. When In spite of all the wealth of information that computers hold, there is actually no real substitute for sitting down and physically reading or writing. As David Gelertner said "a book is more portable than a computer, has a higher resolution-display, can be written on and dog-eared and is comparatively dirt cheap." <Tab/>