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Defintely the tablet by itself means nothing. it needs content. And it can be said that even 20 years ago the indian government could have put a tv + VCR + great recorded content in every classroom for what is relatively a small sum. Just doing this would have improved the current Indian system by leaps and bounds.

But maybe the thing about the tablet is that once people have the tablet, the government isn't the only one who can improve education. Private entrepreneurs, non-profits and juts plain teachers could build great content, market it, etc.

Considering the awfull state of indian education and(my guess) that indian educators are much less entrenched than westren ones(i.e. powerfull unions), affordable private education could really hit big in india, and a tablet at every hand could really be the needed channel for it.