This is a pretty good video, actually. You watch it, and you’re left with the feeling that you kind of understand better how everything works. We should have gadget classes in high school. A semester learning how a blender or a piston works would have been a much better bang for my educational buck than some of the stuff that I learned back then…
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With the caveat that the teachers would have had to understand it to teach it, sure…
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Think about this for a minute. What classes, that you took in high school, *do* you use every day?
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For me, there’s typing .. and that’s about it.
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Mew
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And yeah, count me as another one where the high school class with the biggest ROI by far was the touch typing class I took. Then… math, I guess?
My younger got TinkerCrates for Christmas – an engineering or science project every month in the mail. Last month was a a similar hydraulic project – worth signing up for when its age-appropriate.