[sdiy] Can your *really* teach "Engineering"?

[cheater cheater]

I'm sorry, but modern technology is but a blip on the map of human
existence. Exploring your feelings and emotion through art and
entertainment is not.

People used to have emotions before they had alphabets. People had op
amps only for a few decades.

Social and sociostructural progress is insanely more important than soldering.

Get back in line.

D.

On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 3:09 AM, Bruce Duncan<modcan at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> Absolutely,
>
> There should be an Academy Award equivalent for accomplishments in
> engineering and design.
> Who gives a crap if Brad Pitt can act? His role in a movie may have an
> effect on you for about an hour but the advances in engineering and science
> we take for granted have a far greater impact on our lives.
> Most people don't know who invented the transistor or op-amp. Major
> innovations that are responsible for the modern life we have.
> One problem with holding an Academy Award equivalent for accomplishments in
> engineering and design in USA/Canada...most of the winners would be for best
> foreign design.
>
> Bruce
>
>
>
>> We are too worried about consuming 'stuff' and being entertained than
>> anything else. Why takes risks if you can sit on the couch and laugh at the
>> tv while eating junk food? Where is the motivation to work when our heros
>> are entertainers (actors, athletes, and musicians)?
>>
>> -Jim
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----
>> From: Jerry Gray-Eskue <jerryge at cableone.net>
>> To: Synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 1:35:55 AM
>> Subject: RE: [sdiy] Can your *really* teach "Engineering"?
>>
>> ...
>>
>> I have to think that something is very wrong, what is going on in our
>> education system that we are not progressing on this front? I have to
>> wonder
>> if the people at large are not looking to the past in various ways tiring
>> to
>> find the branch in time that put us here with a view to rewinding history
>> and taking an other branch. Maybe that is what the DIY is really all
>> about,
>> a rewind and redo...
>>
>> --Jerry
>>
>>
>>
>>
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