20 Feb
2006
20 Feb
'06
3:30 p.m.
Fascinating project, and it looks like your thrust is youth education.
Looking at the PDF of "Computer Demolition", this quote really caught my
eye:
=94Will American kids be Inventors in 10 years, or just operate appliance=
s
designed elsewhere?=94 and, by the way, =94Whatever happened to the Kid w=
ho
Certainly in the UK (this is not an American-only list :-)), the
educational system seems designed to remove curiousity from children.
Kids are not encouraged to take things apart, to try things, etc (mostly
for a number of IMHO bogus safety reasons -- put it this way, the cuts I
got from tools as a 5-yera-old kid don't seem to have done me lasting
damage!).
And fortunately, I didn't let the educational system ruin me.
took Alarm Clocks apart to discover how they
worked?=94
Part of the answer to your quote is that those people are right here :)!
Indeed yst.... And I've not stopped taking things apart -- even alarm
clocks -- as I got older. The only difference is that now I tend to get
them back together again...
-tony