I think the "no red pen" rule was introduced into some schools here a few years ago. Teachers were instructed to use green instead, as being less likely to cause offense to students, or some such nonsense.

So next time you get a student in electrical class who decides that 240V into 10 ohms gives 2 amps, don't tell him he's wrong, just say he has "a unique perspective on the problem" so as not to cause him the terrible humiliation of getting his sums wrong. Utter nonsense.

I don't doubt this idiotic "no red" rule was dreamed up by the same group that decided it's wrong to tell a child that he's doing something naughty, as to do so might interfere with his natural development. Natural development into what? A young punk teenager who has no respect for anything or anybody and thinks he can just do what he likes? [Linked Image]

Sven,
Judging by your post, I think you may like this quote. It's from a British author (no, not me!) who regularly writes an antique radio column. One month he recounted all sorts of experiments he did as a young teenager with the DC mains supply in his house during WWII. He ended with this:
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I bet that if DC mains still existed that there would be a million EC regulations as to what one may, or may not do with them in one's own home. I would take the greatest pleasure in breaking every last one of them!

He too mentioned what the modern-day PC brigade would probably think of a kid experimenting in this way today.


[This message has been edited by pauluk (edited 03-10-2003).]