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I think that the good professor has just missed the mark. The problem as I see it isn't created by the lack of opportunity to practice repair skills, but rather, the absence of curiosity to take things apart to see how they work. For reasons I just can't figure out simple curiosity has gone the way of the great auk.
My 12 year old boy is assembling and troubleshooting an internal combustion engine kit as I write this. He can shoot too. He'll be fine. The incurious and incapable will look up from their iphone game when the lights go out and their first twinge of curiosity will be: what just happened?
Then your a lucky man. Our three grew up around machinery and had lots of chances to learn but they have zero curiosity about anything worthwhile. I guess we just gave up because we were fighting a loosing fight against the schools where lazy teachers just serve up whatever lefty slop makes their job easy. We tried to limit their internet but then they were getting more and more projects from school that needed internet research and we didn't have time to stand over their shoulder to make sure they were doing what they should. I should have yanked the damn thing out of the house.
"where lazy teachers just serve up whatever lefty slop makes their job easy"
If you ever get the chance, read Hilda Neatby's "So little for the Mind". It was published in the fifties and way back then she tore apart the foolishness of egalitarianism in the classroom. The public supported her but the educators, backed up by the critics mounted personal attacks (in the usual Liberal style) instead of answering her arguments. My point is wineguy, education has been deteriorating for generations so there probably wasn't much you could do about it.
I think that the good professor has just missed the mark. The problem as I see it isn't created by the lack of opportunity to practice repair skills, but rather, the absence of curiosity to take things apart to see how they work. For reasons I just can't figure out simple curiosity has gone the way of the great auk.
ReplyDeleteMy 12 year old boy is assembling and troubleshooting an internal combustion engine kit as I write this. He can shoot too. He'll be fine. The incurious and incapable will look up from their iphone game when the lights go out and their first twinge of curiosity will be: what just happened?
ReplyDeleteThen your a lucky man. Our three grew up around machinery and had lots of chances to learn but they have zero curiosity about anything worthwhile. I guess we just gave up because we were fighting a loosing fight against the schools where lazy teachers just serve up whatever lefty slop makes their job easy. We tried to limit their internet but then they were getting more and more projects from school that needed internet research and we didn't have time to stand over their shoulder to make sure they were doing what they should. I should have yanked the damn thing out of the house.
Delete"where lazy teachers just serve up whatever lefty slop makes their job easy"
DeleteIf you ever get the chance, read Hilda Neatby's "So little for the Mind". It was published in the fifties and way back then she tore apart the foolishness of egalitarianism in the classroom. The public supported her but the educators, backed up by the critics mounted personal attacks (in the usual Liberal style) instead of answering her arguments. My point is wineguy, education has been deteriorating for generations so there probably wasn't much you could do about it.