Posted on 11/02/2014 9:52:28 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
If you want a reason to opt out of school, youre 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 Indias first 3D printer (and possibly the worlds 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.
Hes 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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Certainly government-run schools are overrated. There are other ways of passing down knowledge for gifted people such as this to build on.
Many homeschoolers are heavily involved in the “maker movement.” There are schools involved in the movement, too.
Uh, the guy worked with a tech development group at MIT.
I consider that an eduction
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.
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’
Future DR. Nakamats?
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.
Today’s American HS dropout couldn’t even operate a printer.
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!
Bump!
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.
bump to 15 for later perusal
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.
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.
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!
Bfl
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