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There's nothing stopping most people from learning, except interest and impulse control.
by everdrive 8y ago
There's nothing stopping most people from learning, except interest and impulse control.
- ghaff 8y agoCarry that to the extreme and why bother having school at all? I'm all for a lot of classical curriculum components. But I also think that there is a huge amount of value to exposing high schoolers to hands-on activities that are both practical and potentially rather enjoyable. This includes electronics and so forth by the way. But it might also include sewing.
- ndnxhs 8y agoOur society systematically encourages people to throw away and buy new things. Its an absolute disaster.
- hilbert42 8y agoYou're so, so right. It's an ecological disaster in the making, and by repairing things we essentially deskill the citizenry—we've far fewer repairers and tradespeople nowadays—and we concentrate knowledge in the hands of large multinationals (at expense of information being open to everyone). Take John Deere's proprietary tractors or Apple proprietary iPhone for instance—no one is allowed to repair them except those authorized by these manufacturers. It's a damned disgrace. No wonder there's 'Right to Repair' movements starting up everywhere. They need our full support.
- hilbert42 8y agoWhat about social engineering and distractions? Even ancient Rome used this technique—take the Colosseum for instance. The problem is that in recent years our culture has be stuffed up by vested interests (and IT and the internet hasn't helped here either).