Bunching disimilar children together is not a good idea IMO. Children are vicious little animals that tear apart those that are different. If you want to allow mixing it has to be done under very close supervision to keep the animals in line. Intro's do not understand the pecking order of the extro's nor do they want to. They just want to be left alone. Mixing can happen AFTER the animals have become somewhat civilized, like say in college. Before that time the intro's get more than enough socialization from family and neighbors. School should not have to be a place of dread as it is now for the introvert.
I can understand your comment but would like to add this thought. Public schools are designed to handle the 75% of people who are extroverted. The goal is to give this majority the basic education that they need. For the most part they succeed in this. The problem is that the remaining 25% of us who are introverted are badly mauled in the school system. An extrovert can not understand an introvert and visa versa. My wish would be for all children to be given the best education posible by sorting out the intro's and extro's into 2 groups that do not have to follow the same course of education. A computer with some good software would be perfectly acceptable for the introvert. A teacher and masses of other children would please the extrovert. I was a square peg being mashed into a round hole in school. I did well in the classroom but did not want to be put through the B.S. that happens around the school. I do not feel Woz can be branded as harmful, he just needs to be aware,(and he may be), of the different personality types. His thought of computers to help in teaching would help the intro's get through the school systems with their ego still intact.
Speaking of next year. I wonder if I can get some of those millineum countdown clocks and rewind them (digtally speaking) so they can be used for the REAL millineum. I asked a guy at a SAM's club if they were selling their leftover stock of such clocks really cheap and he said that my mind worked very strangely. I enjoyed the compliment and left happy.;^)
Interesting you should say something about a car stereo. A former work aquaintence of mine once had a problem with car radio theft. He had 3 stolen from his car in a short period of time. He is a farm boy so his next radio had razor blades welded to the case of the radio. Well, the thief did not steal it. The thief did cut some part of his body attempting to steal it , (evidenced by blood in the car), and the windshield got smashed with a baseball bat. All in all a fairly satisfactory ending. No my friend did not get sued. This was about 18 years ago and the courts were not quite as hosed up as they are now. I wonder if exploding dye packets are available for the public to buy? Theft might go down if removing something improperly resulted in a red-handed marking. Or a permanent invisible flourescent dye that could easily be scanned for later. We need some innovation that not only protects property but also retains personal freedoms.
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Bunching disimilar children together is not a good idea IMO. Children are vicious little animals that tear apart those that are different. If you want to allow mixing it has to be done under very close supervision to keep the animals in line. Intro's do not understand the pecking order of the extro's nor do they want to. They just want to be left alone. Mixing can happen AFTER the animals have become somewhat civilized, like say in college. Before that time the intro's get more than enough socialization from family and neighbors. School should not have to be a place of dread as it is now for the introvert.
I can understand your comment but would like to add this thought. Public schools are designed to handle the 75% of people who are extroverted. The goal is to give this majority the basic education that they need. For the most part they succeed in this. The problem is that the remaining 25% of us who are introverted are badly mauled in the school system. An extrovert can not understand an introvert and visa versa. My wish would be for all children to be given the best education posible by sorting out the intro's and extro's into 2 groups that do not have to follow the same course of education. A computer with some good software would be perfectly acceptable for the introvert. A teacher and masses of other children would please the extrovert. I was a square peg being mashed into a round hole in school. I did well in the classroom but did not want to be put through the B.S. that happens around the school. I do not feel Woz can be branded as harmful, he just needs to be aware ,(and he may be), of the different personality types. His thought of computers to help in teaching would help the intro's get through the school systems with their ego still intact.
Speaking of next year. I wonder if I can get some of those millineum countdown clocks and rewind them (digtally speaking) so they can be used for the REAL millineum. I asked a guy at a SAM's club if they were selling their leftover stock of such clocks really cheap and he said that my mind worked very strangely. I enjoyed the compliment and left happy. ;^)
Interesting you should say something about a car stereo. A former work aquaintence of mine once had a problem with car radio theft. He had 3 stolen from his car in a short period of time. He is a farm boy so his next radio had razor blades welded to the case of the radio. Well, the thief did not steal it. The thief did cut some part of his body attempting to steal it , (evidenced by blood in the car), and the windshield got smashed with a baseball bat. All in all a fairly satisfactory ending. No my friend did not get sued. This was about 18 years ago and the courts were not quite as hosed up as they are now. I wonder if exploding dye packets are available for the public to buy? Theft might go down if removing something improperly resulted in a red-handed marking. Or a permanent invisible flourescent dye that could easily be scanned for later. We need some innovation that not only protects property but also retains personal freedoms.