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This may be lengthy, so please bear with me. I follow lots of different threads here, and much of the time what is going on is over my head because my experience with all things electrical (except house wiring) is limited. The one good thing about that is that I have no preconceived notions of how things SHOULD work. I am a high school principal, and beginning in January there will be a short unit added to the science curriculum at my school on the monopole motor. My contribution to getting young minds to think just a little differently. Even if I have to fund it out of my own pocket, that WILL be happening.
Whenever I can, I build something, if I have enough info that I think I could get it somewhere close to running. I have a couple things that work well, including my monopole, BUT I am in the Monopole3 group, starting at the beginning, just to make sure I learn as much as possible. I learned a long time ago that you have building blocks in learning, and missing one means no foundation for the next step. My son was failing math in his sophomore year in high school, trig I believe, so we began at the beginning of the book. When we hit the concept he had missed, everything clicked into place for him, and he went on to excel in math.
I have a Kromrey I built, but which is not doing what it should, and several other projects in the works. I build, I screw up. I build some more. And I never give up.
I appreciate all the work and all the contributions that you people make to the effort to replicate this technology, and I look forward to the day when enough of you understand how to build it that you can walk those of us with limited experience through the concepts step by step, teaching us the truth of it as opposed to what my son was taught step by step in his engineering classes at the university where he trained to be an electrical engineer. I know some of you look at that as spoon feeding, and I know John wants us to learn by doing. I'm not talking about teaching us how to build a device step by step, I'm talking about the concepts step by step, and then having us apply those concepts to something and figuring out why it works or does not work. I think that's the only way the average guy will ever learn to build this stuff, which is why I think things like the monopole3 group are so important. Learn the basics or you will be lost later on. Take things step by step.
John, as a professional educator with 35 years as a teacher and administrator, I wish there was a way to collaborate on putting together a curriculum that could be introduced into the system to teach young people this information in an exploratory manner so that they would get involved in hands on learning. I am one of those that believe that the children are our future, and I would love to make sure that our future includes a time when everyone knows how to use these concepts to improve our lives and the lives of all the people in the world. To be part of something like that would be incredible.
Meanwhile, I will keep banging my head against the wall with all the others, because I believe that wall is so full of cracks right now that it could come tumbling down at any moment. I remember when Regan said "Mr Gorbachev, tear down that wall." I believe another moment, just as historic, is close at hand, but until people like me, with only basic skills, can replicate this technology, we are still a long way from where we need to be.
Once again, thank you everyone, for all that you do. The conference was amazing. I'm bringing my wife and my son to the next one. He can pay his own way though. As an engineer, he makes more than his old man.
This may be lengthy, so please bear with me. I follow lots of different threads here, and much of the time what is going on is over my head because my experience with all things electrical (except house wiring) is limited. The one good thing about that is that I have no preconceived notions of how things SHOULD work. I am a high school principal, and beginning in January there will be a short unit added to the science curriculum at my school on the monopole motor. My contribution to getting young minds to think just a little differently. Even if I have to fund it out of my own pocket, that WILL be happening.
Whenever I can, I build something, if I have enough info that I think I could get it somewhere close to running. I have a couple things that work well, including my monopole, BUT I am in the Monopole3 group, starting at the beginning, just to make sure I learn as much as possible. I learned a long time ago that you have building blocks in learning, and missing one means no foundation for the next step. My son was failing math in his sophomore year in high school, trig I believe, so we began at the beginning of the book. When we hit the concept he had missed, everything clicked into place for him, and he went on to excel in math.
I have a Kromrey I built, but which is not doing what it should, and several other projects in the works. I build, I screw up. I build some more. And I never give up.
I appreciate all the work and all the contributions that you people make to the effort to replicate this technology, and I look forward to the day when enough of you understand how to build it that you can walk those of us with limited experience through the concepts step by step, teaching us the truth of it as opposed to what my son was taught step by step in his engineering classes at the university where he trained to be an electrical engineer. I know some of you look at that as spoon feeding, and I know John wants us to learn by doing. I'm not talking about teaching us how to build a device step by step, I'm talking about the concepts step by step, and then having us apply those concepts to something and figuring out why it works or does not work. I think that's the only way the average guy will ever learn to build this stuff, which is why I think things like the monopole3 group are so important. Learn the basics or you will be lost later on. Take things step by step.
John, as a professional educator with 35 years as a teacher and administrator, I wish there was a way to collaborate on putting together a curriculum that could be introduced into the system to teach young people this information in an exploratory manner so that they would get involved in hands on learning. I am one of those that believe that the children are our future, and I would love to make sure that our future includes a time when everyone knows how to use these concepts to improve our lives and the lives of all the people in the world. To be part of something like that would be incredible.
Meanwhile, I will keep banging my head against the wall with all the others, because I believe that wall is so full of cracks right now that it could come tumbling down at any moment. I remember when Regan said "Mr Gorbachev, tear down that wall." I believe another moment, just as historic, is close at hand, but until people like me, with only basic skills, can replicate this technology, we are still a long way from where we need to be.
Once again, thank you everyone, for all that you do. The conference was amazing. I'm bringing my wife and my son to the next one. He can pay his own way though. As an engineer, he makes more than his old man.
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