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Is School Overrated? High School "Dropout" Makes Affordable 3D Printer
Forbes ^ | October 31, 2014 | Esha Chhabra

Posted on 11/02/2014 9:52:28 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

If you want a reason to opt out of school, you’re not alone. And Angad Daryani might just be the inspiration you were looking for.

Daryani, a 16-year-old Mumbaiker, quit school in the 9th grade, frustrated by rote learning. Soon after, he built India’s first 3D printer (and possibly the world’s cheapest 3D printer). In 2013, he developed an “eye-pad” for the blind with MIT. When he was younger, he set up a miniature solar-powered boat and created an automatic watering system for garden plants. He has a longer list of hobbies that you can see here.

He calls himself a maker.

He’s not just messing about all day, though. Rather, he left school to spend 6 hours a day, learning math, science, and language with a tutor. It was in these years, that he truly started tinkering – and discovering solutions.

Around the world, there are approximately over 1,000 maker spaces - havens for people who just want to make stuff. TechShop is the most noted maker network in the United States. Yet, localized maker spaces are cropping up globally. Daryani set up one for people himself in Mumbai: aptly called Makers Asylum. His co-founder, Vaibhav Chhabra, now manages the center and has upgraded it; Daryani had to step aside given time constraints....

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet; Education; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: 3dprinters; 3dprinting; entrepreneurs; india
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Just amazing.
1 posted on 11/02/2014 9:52:30 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Certainly government-run schools are overrated. There are other ways of passing down knowledge for gifted people such as this to build on.


2 posted on 11/02/2014 9:59:42 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Many homeschoolers are heavily involved in the “maker movement.” There are schools involved in the movement, too.


3 posted on 11/02/2014 10:00:18 PM PST by Tired of Taxes
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Uh, the guy worked with a tech development group at MIT.

I consider that an eduction


4 posted on 11/02/2014 10:01:07 PM PST by rdcbn
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

A proper education cannot be over-rated, but there are a few fortunate individuals who were born with the capacity to think in ways that the best education systems cannot teach.


5 posted on 11/02/2014 10:06:14 PM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
If you really want to be amazed, check out the eduction you can get in your own home without ever attending a day of school. Most are on YouTube

http://online.stanford.edu/courses/topic/4

https://www.youtube.com/user/MIT/playlists?view=1&shelf_id=2

Millions of tuition bucks worth of world class educational content at your finger tips for free.

There are no more excuses for lack of success because just about anyone can get a Stanford/ MIT level eduction for free in their own spare time.

Unprecedented in human history and amazingly few bother to take advantage of this historic playing field leveler

Just sayin’

6 posted on 11/02/2014 10:11:14 PM PST by rdcbn
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Future DR. Nakamats?


7 posted on 11/02/2014 10:27:04 PM PST by lavaroise (A well regulated gun being necessary to the state, the rights of the militia shall not be infringed)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

One of our graphic design kids never went to formal school. He just downloaded the bootleg Lynda courses off torrent and learned some of it from Youtube.


8 posted on 11/02/2014 10:27:54 PM PST by max americana (fired liberals in our company last election, and I laughed while they cried (true story))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Today’s American HS dropout couldn’t even operate a printer.


9 posted on 11/02/2014 10:37:08 PM PST by max americana (fired liberals in our company last election, and I laughed while they cried (true story))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
American public schools are producing uneducated, indoctrinated “students” incapable of original thought. What skills they acquire are inspite of the public schooling and not due to it. With all the computerized learning about, we should be changing the model on how kids are educated. The old brick and mortar buildings with expensive classrooms and even more expensive teachers are bordering on obsolete. Public schooling actually discourages learning. Schools have become prisons where kids are locked-up for eight hours a day in a taxpayer funded warehouse.
11 posted on 11/03/2014 12:31:35 AM PST by MasterGunner01
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To: rdcbn

https://www.khanacademy.org/

Plus, just search YouTube for various “industrial/shop”. topics.

Or the various technical hobbies.

The internet can be a fabulous learning tool. I had a request this week from a doctor in Ethiopia. Sugar was rationed in her location and she needed a replacement for Oral Rehydration Solution. She mentioned hearing about a rice based substitute while at a tropical medicine course in Bangkok.

Two minutes on Google and voila! The actual research paper telling the formulation, method of making, nutritional composition and the results of clinical trials... and all in English, to boot!


12 posted on 11/03/2014 12:38:08 AM PST by BwanaNdege (Mother of Epidemics- "Gang Green and the Government Staff Infection" - G. Morgan, Freedom Foundation)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Bump!


13 posted on 11/03/2014 12:43:28 AM PST by 4Liberty (Prejudice and generalizations. That's how Collectivists roll......)
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To: Jonty30

Exactly; it takes a singular approach if you want to bypass traditional, established teaching and only a FEW people succeed without a high school diploma or without a college degree. They’re often exceptionally focused and are able to go for what they really want and need and know how to get it.

It’s a myth that dropping out of either will lead to inevitable success.


14 posted on 11/03/2014 1:00:25 AM PST by CorporateStepsister (I am NOT going to force a man to make my dreams come true)
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To: BwanaNdege
https://www.khanacademy.org/

The success and popularity of the Khan Academy are testimony to just how bad the quality of teachers at many public high schools is. The Khan instructional videos on Algebra, Geometry, Trig are clear, explained well and easy to understand - by contrast, many high school teachers of these subjects barely understand them and often confuse and frustrate their students in their attempts to teach these subjects. Of course, there's no substitute for adequate, stringent testing at school but the Khan Academy is a high-quality, free online tutor for any student struggling with high school math (and other subjects too). One of the most worthwhile uses of the Internet I've seen.
15 posted on 11/03/2014 1:12:03 AM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: Nailbiter

bump to 15 for later perusal


16 posted on 11/03/2014 1:21:46 AM PST by Nailbiter
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To: rdcbn

The thesis “is school over rated” - no on ever said questioned whether “education” was over rated. Clearly this young man is educated. Clearly little of that happened in school.


17 posted on 11/03/2014 1:50:52 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright (www.FireKarlRove.com NOW)
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To: AnotherUnixGeek
...the Khan Academy is a high-quality, free online tutor for any student struggling with high school math (and other subjects too). One of the most worthwhile uses of the Internet I've seen.

Well said!

My wife just completed "College Math", her final course requirement for her degree via Liberty University-Online. She had not taken a math course in over 45 years and was quite apprehensive. Khan Academy was invaluable!

Thankfully, her professor also encouraged the use of spreadsheets such as MS Excel or OpenOffice Calc. Through lessons from the YouTube channels ExcelIsFun and Mr. Excel, Mrs. BwanaNdege is now as big a fan of spreadsheets as I.

Thanks & praise to Sal Khan and his team for developing Khan Academy and promulgating it freely and to Bill Gates for one of his must valuable philanthropic endeavors.

18 posted on 11/03/2014 3:53:54 AM PST by BwanaNdege (Mother of Epidemics- "Gang Green and the Government Staff Infection" - G. Morgan, Freedom Foundation)
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To: MasterGunner01

Great Guns, you well rounded all the bases!
Simply too much value on education and little if any on knowledge. Some years ago, I mentioned to a HS teacher the importance of students learning “critical thinking”. Got a blank stare and the gulping mouth of a goldfish in return. Gulp was followed by uhhhHUH!


19 posted on 11/03/2014 4:01:49 AM PST by Huaynero
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Bfl


20 posted on 11/03/2014 7:06:37 AM PST by goodnesswins (R.I.P. Doherty, Smith, Stevens, Woods)
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