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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
by 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 agoWhy 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 agoWell, 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.