A little pick-me-up for you architecture students out there...
...well, not exactly, but it's still pretty hilarious.
Scott Adams, of Dilbert fame, proposes to do away with the basic primary and secondary school curriculum...
...and having the kids enrolled in BS Architecture.
And I quote:
You could take any tiny portion of the house project and make it an exercise in critical thinking. I can imagine a school curriculum organized around building an imaginary house, advancing from first grade through high school. Kids could learn all sorts of useful skills, from budgeting (math), to calculating loads (science), to learning how couples can decide on the fixtures and furniture. Your geography course could be based on deciding what country to build your house in. Geology would be oriented toward deciding what type of land to build on. Art class would involve interior design and architecture, with a semester on how to identify good art for the walls. Biology would involve understanding your own future garden and plants. Evolution would involve learning why your family dog walks on four legs and you walk on two.
You would learn all the critical thinking you ever needed just trying to design a kitchen that requires the fewest footsteps and fits into a defined space, with a limited budget.
Kids who are gifted would learn more about the math and science behind the engineering of the house. Kids on a more hands-on career path might be learning how to pave the driveway or design the electrical system. Designing and building a house employs almost every useful field of knowledge, excepting maybe history and language.
I don't know which is more absurd, the idea of replacing the basic education curriculum with BS Arch, or the fact that it designing and building a house gave him this idea in the first place.
I would feel sorry for the 10 year old boy/girl who would be asked to calculate the load requirements, however.
And history might not be part of it, but art history could be.
And language comes into play when you start dealing with the client/contractor/consultants.
(Especially if your project manager says 80 words a minute, only half of which can legitimately be considered words).
Scott Adams, of Dilbert fame, proposes to do away with the basic primary and secondary school curriculum...
...and having the kids enrolled in BS Architecture.
And I quote:
You could take any tiny portion of the house project and make it an exercise in critical thinking. I can imagine a school curriculum organized around building an imaginary house, advancing from first grade through high school. Kids could learn all sorts of useful skills, from budgeting (math), to calculating loads (science), to learning how couples can decide on the fixtures and furniture. Your geography course could be based on deciding what country to build your house in. Geology would be oriented toward deciding what type of land to build on. Art class would involve interior design and architecture, with a semester on how to identify good art for the walls. Biology would involve understanding your own future garden and plants. Evolution would involve learning why your family dog walks on four legs and you walk on two.
You would learn all the critical thinking you ever needed just trying to design a kitchen that requires the fewest footsteps and fits into a defined space, with a limited budget.
Kids who are gifted would learn more about the math and science behind the engineering of the house. Kids on a more hands-on career path might be learning how to pave the driveway or design the electrical system. Designing and building a house employs almost every useful field of knowledge, excepting maybe history and language.
I don't know which is more absurd, the idea of replacing the basic education curriculum with BS Arch, or the fact that it designing and building a house gave him this idea in the first place.
I would feel sorry for the 10 year old boy/girl who would be asked to calculate the load requirements, however.
And history might not be part of it, but art history could be.
And language comes into play when you start dealing with the client/contractor/consultants.
(Especially if your project manager says 80 words a minute, only half of which can legitimately be considered words).