Tesla is my favorite inventor and scientist. They still teach false information in public school that rightfully should be about him, but is not.
Great article as usual @stellabelle and one dear to my heart. I don't know if this will inspire my alter ego to poem or not yet. We shall see.
It drives me nuts that he is not taught properly in schools and still escapes the mainstream consciousness. It's absurd really. I have aspirations to start my own school that would be loosely based on what Khan Academy is doing.....I had the benefit of being taught by ex-hippies in a private school when I was young, and guess what bird we had in the kitchen? A pet dove! That school introduced to me all kinds of creative ideas, and to this day, I still remember that our lunchroom floor was hand-painted with giant rainbows............I shudder to think about what schools are teaching kids now.
I listen to My Inventions on audiobook, and it has the effect of easing my dumb worries. I've listened to it 4 times and each time I learn something new. Why we don't officially celebrate Tesla is insane actually.
On the inventor side, I worked with an inventor in Cali. Perhaps I will write about that sometime.......he's dead now.
Tesla is a rare person. I was more impressed by him than Einstein (who I also admire) and many others. Edison I didn't respect much as I know he got famous basically by putting his name on other people's work (I know he DID do some of his own too). Yet.... Tesla. If I go back in time perhaps Da Vinci was similar in historical sense. Then to find anyone else I'd have to go way back, and so much of that literature was destroyed by Christians and others burning books and libraries. There are hints that Pythagoras may have been a person of some seriously interesting traits as well.
Both of my parents were hippies. Lot's of sitting around a fire singing songs. We also had pet Doves... I got really good at doing dove calls, and their little sucking in and singing thing they do that sounds kind of like a kazoo.
Schools are not actually teaching kids nowadays, they are just making them act like good and obedient robots that should follow what they are being told. Throwing at them a lot of useless and hard to process information about various things, expecting them to learn... excuse me to remember all that for no apparent reason and for no future use. Just to let them rediscover some of these things later on in life if/when they may actually need them.
Schools nowadays do not promote creativity or thinking for yourself, you just need to learn what you are being told and that should be enough... I said learn again, correction, remember some facts and numbers as well as what goes where, not learn why and how it does it, but just remember the order it happens. Robots and more robots, easy to control and not thinking for themselves, just following what they are being told.
I remember from my school days that there were just two teachers that were different in their approach and I'm grateful to these people that actually helped in shaping me and most importantly my mind and helping me turn to what I have become. It is a shame that they were just two out of many, many that were like robots themselves, not caring much about what they were actually teaching and most importantly how!
Guess why they are not teaching anything about Tesla or other unconventional people in school, because it is not the norm and they just won't deviate from it... otherwise the little robots may decide to revolt and start thinking for themselves.
I had some great teachers too.
An overly conventional teacher cannot get excited about an overly unconventional historical figure. We are not attracting the right people to teaching!!!!!!! I think this is why I should open up a school!!!!!! I'm the most unconventional person I know...
Agree that a conventional teacher can hardly even think about some other unconventional approaches to convey a topic in a more interesting and attractive way to the kids. Even make them really get to learn the specific material by getting them interested in it in some way. So how can then we expect that person to talk about an unconventional figure, then again they may even consider people like that controversial and bad as an example instead of letting the kids decide what might be good and bad for themselves.
As for opening a school, that may not be a bad idea, you have already made something close to that here on Steemit already... so maybe you should think about that one a bit more. ;)
Yes, but we have Atomic Robo, that is there to put Tesla back into public conciousness. As well has a lot of Action! Science! And the eponymous Robo. Which is quite cool.
Of course Tesla the real scientist is cooler than Tesla the cartoon scientist, but the comic is really good.
As a side note Tesla is really well known in Russia. And we have one of largest Tesla coils in the world near Moscow. I suppose some Russian Steemian should go visit it, and write an article with photos about it for some ultra-mega-giga watts, err, I mean bucks! :-D