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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
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Just amazing.
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.
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posted on
11/02/2014 9:59:42 PM PST
by
Olog-hai
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Many homeschoolers are heavily involved in the “maker movement.” There are schools involved in the movement, too.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Uh, the guy worked with a tech development group at MIT.
I consider that an eduction
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posted on
11/02/2014 10:01:07 PM PST
by
rdcbn
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.
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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)
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’
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posted on
11/02/2014 10:11:14 PM PST
by
rdcbn
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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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)
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.
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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))
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Today’s American HS dropout couldn’t even operate a printer.
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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.
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!
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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)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
11/03/2014 12:43:28 AM PST
by
4Liberty
(Prejudice and generalizations. That's how Collectivists roll......)
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.
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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)
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.
To: Nailbiter
bump to 15 for later perusal
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.
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.
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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)
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!
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posted on
11/03/2014 4:01:49 AM PST
by
Huaynero
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
11/03/2014 7:06:37 AM PST
by
goodnesswins
(R.I.P. Doherty, Smith, Stevens, Woods)
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