Engineering Politics
One Engineer's view on life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness–and of course politics!

Posts Tagged ‘education

Mental health education in the schools?

May 29, 2009

As Germany mulls a proposal to ban paintball after the shooting spree involving teenager Tim Kretschmer, it does force a look at how these shootings can happen. I disagree with any ban of paintball as it seems to be very reactionary.   A decision by a politician who feels something must be done–and quickly.   I understand [...]

$20 laptop? Attempts to educate more of India

February 4, 2009

Patrick Mannion has an interesting look at how Tata is attempting to address India’s less fortunate population by proposing a $20 laptop.  An ambitious project, the questions are:  will they be able to build a functional $20 laptop?  And will they be able to really sell that many to the less fortunate of India (and [...]

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