Computers cause low education standards

Your front page and editorial (Irish Examiner, April 5) regarding lack of high-speed internet in primary schools was unnecessarily alarmist ie lack of internet in primary schools ‘’could stymie a whole generation’s appetite for learning.’’

This is incorrect; the majority of research studies have found that real learning and creative thinking are achieved via a combination of good teachers, books and pupil interaction — not through computer screens.

It is ironic that in Silicon Valley, home of this “technological wizardry’, the top primary schools have banned computers from the learning process.