Do Teachers Even Want 3D Printers?

[old man emu]

So many of my friends are stupid... I've done my best to teach myself skills beyond what the schools here would.

Hey! Hey! Watch what you are saying. Your friends are not stupid. They are just uneducated in the areas in which you have educated yourself. Never say that someone is stupid. You don't know where their abilities lie. I could be called stupid by a musician because I can't play a musical instrument. I'm always calling my son stupid because he hardly knows which end of a wrench to hold, but I do. However, he calls me stupid because I don't know how to set up and run a computer-based communications system, which is his area of specialty.

I've taught myself lots of things that other people don't have the need or desire to learn. Does that make them stupid and me smart? No!

My argument with education systems is that they fail to lay the foundations of numeracy and written communication which are essential for expanding the areas of learning a child can enter as they grow older.

Old Man Emu