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I agree 100 percent. The reason one gets an education is because you want to find out what interesting things there are. If everyone had the same education ther
by madmaze 16y ago
I agree 100 percent. The reason one gets an education is because you want to find out what interesting things there are. If everyone had the same education there would be no job competition.
The problem with most of today's education systems is that everyone gets treated the same. I have found this out first hand, but i was lucky enough to have a high school computer and robotics teacher that let me explore things i found interesting for credit. To make this possible we had to pretend that it was a regularly scheduled class, otherwise the administration of the school would have never let me build robots, program IRC clients or play with rapid prototyping. I learned more about research and the way things worked in the two semesters i was with this teacher than i did in all of my other schooling.
- jgg 16y ago>but i was lucky enough to have a high school computer and robotics teacher that let me explore things i found interesting for credit. You were lucky - the only thing that saved me from giving up entirely in high school were a few good books I found by browsing MIT's OpenCourseWare pages and other places. My high school was full of corrupt assholes who spent all the school's funding on elaborate sports complexes for our shitty sports sports teams, so that all the funding to our science, math and tech clubs dissolved and the library only had a few outdated dictionaries and some terrible fiction books. But I'm not bitter. (;