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>edit: While I think at it, opening schools for general public sound more and more better idea. Not sure if this was supposed to be a joke about the public sch

by blhack 16y ago

>edit: While I think at it, opening schools for general public sound more and more better idea. Not sure if this was supposed to be a joke about the public school system or not... If it was, the public school system, unfortunately, comes to an abrupt end when you graduate from high school. You can continue learning if you want, but you have to pay huge amounts of money to do so. What I'm advocating here is effectively an expansion of libraries into sortof-schools for both kids and adults that want to do stuff beyond what is being offered in their classes.

zokier 16y ago
Not a joke about school system. What I meant that schools facilities would be more fitting for community centers, so it would be imho more sensible to open school facilities for adults to use (of course equipping some rooms appropriately) rather than expanding libraries.
- blhack 16y ago
  A problem that I have with this is that the school system is too rigid. Maybe it was different for some people, but when I was in school, it was very much "you are allowed to do this specific thing with this resource, and nothing else." One school that I went to, my junior high school, actually had an outstanding tech shop. We had a CNC mill, CAD stations, a pneumatics lab, some robotics stuff, a wind tunnel...lots of absolutely amazing things. That said, I never got the impression that I could use the CNC mill for anything other than writing my name on a piece of plexiglass (a souvenir that I still have.) (I actually moved away from this school mid-term and never got to do the wind tunnel, or the pneumatics lab) What I'm talking about is taking the shop that I had in middle school and putting it in a library so that everybody can use it.
  - zokier 16y ago
    Why would it need to be moved to library? Wouldn't it be easier just let schools open doors and let everybody use the equipment etc where it is?
    - blhack 16y ago
      Well, first, this stuff mostly doesn't exist in schools. Around the valley, maybe, but in Iowa where I grew up (the place I left to after the school I was talking about)? No. Second, why not put this stuff in the Library? It is absolutely a resource that the public could use.

by blhack 16y ago

zokier 16y ago

Not a joke about school system. What I meant that schools facilities would be more fitting for community centers, so it would be imho more sensible to open school facilities for adults to use (of course equipping some rooms appropriately) rather than expanding libraries.

blhack 16y ago
A problem that I have with this is that the school system is too rigid. Maybe it was different for some people, but when I was in school, it was very much "you are allowed to do this specific thing with this resource, and nothing else." One school that I went to, my junior high school, actually had an outstanding tech shop. We had a CNC mill, CAD stations, a pneumatics lab, some robotics stuff, a wind tunnel...lots of absolutely amazing things. That said, I never got the impression that I could use the CNC mill for anything other than writing my name on a piece of plexiglass (a souvenir that I still have.) (I actually moved away from this school mid-term and never got to do the wind tunnel, or the pneumatics lab) What I'm talking about is taking the shop that I had in middle school and putting it in a library so that everybody can use it.
- zokier 16y ago
  Why would it need to be moved to library? Wouldn't it be easier just let schools open doors and let everybody use the equipment etc where it is?
  - blhack 16y ago
    Well, first, this stuff mostly doesn't exist in schools. Around the valley, maybe, but in Iowa where I grew up (the place I left to after the school I was talking about)? No. Second, why not put this stuff in the Library? It is absolutely a resource that the public could use.