Militaries have used drugs to keep their soldiers awake long before this. In WW2 Hitler gave his troops speed to fight for days on end, and there were loads of drugs given to the troops in Vietnam for similar reasons.
I was looking through some raid articles and found this. http://www.ofb.net/~jheiss/raid10/
It explains how 1+0 is better than 0+1 either way..ROACHES HATE RAID!! . . . ... sorry, had to throw in the corny bug joke.
The subject of school improvement and generating smarter offspring and the like will probably be debated on for as long as schooling is ever available, anywhere at all. I personally do not think that anything can be done to improve schooling that much. Children that are interested in learning will learn and excel, and the ones that aren't interested will fall behind, fail, and become a burden of society that the smart kids will ultimatly buy food for. I suppose the dividing line can be skewed and faint sometimes, and there are often students that can be inbetween. I think there will always be nerds, geeks, jocks, bullys, and all around dumb kids. If some thing that different teaching practices can change this then that is something they can wish for. I, personally, see nothing wrong with the schools because the smart kids will always come up on top in the end and there cannot be help for the others sometimes.
I guess I'm just trying to say.. NERDS ROCK!
Hee hee! *SNORT*
Oh, and I'm sorry if your kid is a dumbass, but we'll always need someone to cook us burgers and dig ditches.
as for technology, you're right. get computers out of schools completely.
Although you make some good points on teachers seeing lab days as holidays, getting computers out of school completely would not be beneficial. I've taken classes like Computer Engineering, Computer Programming, Computerized Accounting, etc, and these would be very difficult to do without the use of computers in schools.:P
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Militaries have used drugs to keep their soldiers awake long before this. In WW2 Hitler gave his troops speed to fight for days on end, and there were loads of drugs given to the troops in Vietnam for similar reasons.
I was looking through some raid articles and found this.
... sorry, had to throw in the corny bug joke.
http://www.ofb.net/~jheiss/raid10/
It explains how 1+0 is better than 0+1 either way..ROACHES HATE RAID!!
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Well.. Scotty was an engineer!
RIP Scotty.
The subject of school improvement and generating smarter offspring and the like will probably be debated on for as long as schooling is ever available, anywhere at all. I personally do not think that anything can be done to improve schooling that much. Children that are interested in learning will learn and excel, and the ones that aren't interested will fall behind, fail, and become a burden of society that the smart kids will ultimatly buy food for. I suppose the dividing line can be skewed and faint sometimes, and there are often students that can be inbetween. I think there will always be nerds, geeks, jocks, bullys, and all around dumb kids. If some thing that different teaching practices can change this then that is something they can wish for. I, personally, see nothing wrong with the schools because the smart kids will always come up on top in the end and there cannot be help for the others sometimes.
I guess I'm just trying to say.. NERDS ROCK!
Hee hee! *SNORT*
Oh, and I'm sorry if your kid is a dumbass, but we'll always need someone to cook us burgers and dig ditches.
as for technology, you're right. get computers out of schools completely. :P
Although you make some good points on teachers seeing lab days as holidays, getting computers out of school completely would not be beneficial. I've taken classes like Computer Engineering, Computer Programming, Computerized Accounting, etc, and these would be very difficult to do without the use of computers in schools.