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05-20-2012, 07:54 AM
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OT- Educating the youth
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05-20-2012, 11:30 AM
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Man, I wish, the museums would do something like that in Germany. If you are a youngster and interested in military modelling, wargaming, or military history, you should better do that in private. To openly express one's interest in that type of thing is some kind of social seppuku
 The only thing that is tolerated, is Warhammer. You're still an outcast, but "... it's no real war, after all!" And the all peace and coop interested parents over here can't see anything "fun" in wargaming - Political Correctness the German way.
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05-20-2012, 09:30 PM
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That's a pretty damn good idea. I've never thought of using wargaming to teach history. It's a duhhh moment. I ought to drop a hint to my sister, a middle school history teacher.
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05-21-2012, 10:21 AM
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It would be, but we do have problems and such with "schools" doing things like that.
Infact, one silly story - I was in 6th form (17 yrs old, UK schooling), and offered to help a yr 9 that I knew (13/14 yrs old) with his World War II history assignment (not the whole "write it for him", but point him to the right info), and I tried to go to Bovington Tank Museum website, and got "Websense: This paged is blocked due to Nazi paraphernalia or history", annoying, then I went in and had a look to see how insane this ban was, and could not get to a few more sites, but one site I did check that I was able to get to was "The anarchists handbook" .. so yeah, this would be good if we could get the bean counters to pull their heads out of their collective asses.
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05-21-2012, 10:48 AM
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You should see our school's firewall, we often get the message that sites are blocked due to "Educational Content".
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05-21-2012, 11:26 AM
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Reminds me of the problems encountered by residents of the town of Scunthorpe in England some years ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem
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05-21-2012, 01:09 PM
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So the firewall is actually saving the pupils from learning (No access to EDUCATIONAL content!); that is f....d up! (Reminds me of the one, my boss installed at work.. Since than its good-bye to MOST websites..)
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