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I agree. The computers that I learned on by taking them apart, reassembling and programming them were not school property. Tinkering with those computers, reins

by jkic47 9y ago

I agree. The computers that I learned on by taking them apart, reassembling and programming them were not school property. Tinkering with those computers, reinstalling the OS when I overreached and trashed the system, and troubleshooting unresponsive hardware taught me more than any textbook ever could. Schools probably can't afford to let students learn like that because they'd need people to restore everything for the fraction of students who wouldn't be able to recover.

qb45 9y ago
> fraction of students who wouldn't be able to recover. You got the proportions backwards. It would be a few guys doing something weird that confuses the technically illiterate teacher and disrupts the whole class. I'm all for hackable computers in schools but it has to be something that can be quickly restored to a known state and used as a dead tree replacement with zero fuss. This is why Chromebooks are owning this market.