Readers will know that I'm a fan of Bruce Schneier. His best blog entry to date was yesterday.

Improve education by making the geek culture the cool culture:

"The driving force in the life of a child, starting much earlier than it used to be, is to be cool, to fit in," Grodd told the group. "And pretty universally, it's cool to rebel." In other words, prepare for you and your netbook to be jeered out of the room. "The best schools," Grodd told me later, "are able to make learning cool, so the cool kids are the ones who get As. That's an art."

It's hard. You do it, according to the article, by breaking the youth culture - having lots of adults around all the time, everywhere.