{"id":788,"date":"2000-09-18T19:33:51","date_gmt":"2000-09-19T00:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/2000\/09\/18\/788\/"},"modified":"2019-07-01T21:21:28","modified_gmt":"2019-07-02T01:21:28","slug":"people-are-resourceful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/2000\/09\/18\/people-are-resourceful\/","title":{"rendered":"people are resourceful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>~ disconnected thoughts on the definition of a school: people are not resources; people are resourceful. they are resourceful enough to have invented a plethora of tools which have been engineered and refined with the intention of doing nothing but making life and work more simple. they have even devised a system of associating types of tools, such as scanners and table saws, and exchanging them with another tool, money. an extension of these tools is a system of education; such systems have arisen in which a student pays into an institution, and in return, the student a certain of those resources which are best suited for the task that the student wishes to learn. for example, an aspiring architect might enter into a contract in which he or she pays for the use of a wood or metal shop, or perhaps a library&#8230;<br \/>\nwhat is not acceptable is a school taking $40,000 from a student for a more than two years, promising to him or her the tools that they require, and then not delivering the resources which the have essentially purchased.<br \/>\nit is unacceptable for a school to take this money from them, and then when they demand a return on it or of it, to have a faculty member to tell them to &#8216;stop fucking whining&#8217; or to &#8216;get on with their lives&#8217;.<br \/>\nit is unacceptable to expect one class or generation of a student body to finance, at the expense of a quality environment, an administration&#8217;s future reward.<br \/>\nonly a fool would declare that a school, like sci-arc, doesn&#8217;t need a building or tools or classrooms, because it has &#8216;los angeles as a resource. if that is the case, and i am expected to go out and find my education someplace else in <a href=\"\/log\/images\/daily\/daily118.jpg\" title=\"daily image\">los angeles<\/a>, then by sending money to the bungling administration, i am essentially just buying a degree. i wish i had been told this during the orientation; i could have sent the check in two years ago, and saved myself some time and quite a few folks some grief.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/logdot.gif\" alt=\"logdot\" style=\"border: 0px;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>~ <span class=\"underline\">110<\/span><sup>a<\/sup>, the latest publication from the angry red planet, is almost ready for wide release. the test pressing is on the publisher&#8217;s desk this very minute. follow this news closely for updates!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>~ disconnected thoughts on the definition of a school: people are not resources; people are resourceful. they are resourceful enough to have invented a plethora of tools which have been engineered and refined with the intention of doing nothing but making life and work more simple. they have even devised a system of associating types [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7,43],"class_list":["post-788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-sci-arc","tag-zines"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2898,"href":"https:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions\/2898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}