OT: Calling all straight F students..., Don't ever give up |
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OT: Calling all straight F students..., Don't ever give up |
BigD9146gt |
Mar 1 2005, 08:10 PM
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OCD member Group: Members Posts: 376 Joined: 24-January 05 From: Sydney, Australia Member No.: 3,502 Region Association: Australia and New Zealand |
I was never good at homework. I liked being in school learning, just never could remember any of it when the time came to barf it back to the teacher. This is an email my old man sent me, he's a pretty sucessful mechanical engineer who also didn't do all that well in school. Enjoy.
Charles Kettering invented no knock self-starter, diesel locomotive and paint for cars. Intelligent Ignorance: The more education you have the less likely you are to become an inventor. The reason why is this: from the time a kid starts Kindergarten to the time he graduates from college, he will be examined two or three times a year and if he flunks once, he’s out. Now an inventor fails 999 times and if he succeeds once, he’s in. An inventor treats his failures simply as practice shots. He believed a problem was more than willing to be solved provided the researcher remembered who was boss, by which he meant the problem, not himself. The only difference between a problem and a solution, he used to say, is that people understand the solution. Solutions only involve a change in perception, since the solution must have existed all along with the problem itself. A researcher, he argued, was there not to master the problem but to make it give birth to its solution. |
MattR |
Mar 1 2005, 11:31 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 3,279 Joined: 23-January 04 From: SF Bay Area Member No.: 1,589 Region Association: Northern California |
I would be scared if 6 year old kids werent given a chance in school... frankly I dont think we should have real schooling until like 10 or 11. Before that it should just be socializing! Whether the government should fund a playground is another topic of another forum (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/dry.gif) But curves are there for a reason. If there were no curves, EVERYONE would fail. For instance, on my dynamics midterm a few weeks ago the class average was 49 out of 100. My 68 turned out to be an A-/B+. But 30% of the class still didnt get a passing grade. A curve is just more fair. It normalizes the class to account for easy teachers or bad test questions. |
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