Posted on 04/09/2013 9:04:10 AM PDT by servo1969
I will grant you that kids are smarter because of the Internet, but researching skills don’t translate into mechanical skills. Example: Measuring the torque applied to an object.
The three students in the lab were setting up this experiment. They read the directions, set up every thing according to directions, but they could not get a reading of the torque. They called over my TA instructor friend. He took one look and asked them where the cord used in the setup was? Puzzled looks. The TA had to explain the experiment was to measure torque on an item and the cord was necessary to connect the measuring equipment. Stunned looks.
Moral: All read the instructions and followed the setup, except they left out the most critical item to complete the experiment. The problem is not so much brilliance, but lack of attention to detail and mechanical ability.
Yeah it was a decent school in the 1800's, but became a preppy boys' diploma mill in the 1900's, and is an academic outhouse now. My daughter graduated from Hillsdale College and received twice the education available at dear old Bowdoin.
Hate to see it happen to a good school though. As far as I'm concerned, when my school hired Peter Singer that was the end of my association with them.
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