#fun fact he avoided being cannon fodder in WWII because he was so autistic about radios they made him

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Just an average daily Polskie Radio broadcast from 1928. This cross-section of the interwar social project throws my head into a tailspin??? You’ve got your daily Military Updates (”The Polish Solider in This Day & Age”); a lecture on the Dalton system (novel pedagogy based on individual learning, one of many methodologies that emerged from the ferment at the turn of the 20th century and the overwhelming drive toward educational reform & radical reconstruction/reimagination of schooling as such)--this is sponsored by the ministry of education and religion, by the way! (Yes, in the II RP religion and education are under one umbrella); Farming Bulletin; a French language lecture (!!!); a history lecture on the youth of August II der Starke, 17th-century governor of Saxony (and as Miłosz pointed out, duh, king of Poland, much more important, I am dumb of ass lol) (!!!!!); and to wrap up the evening, a live concert dedicated to the works of Chopin. There’s a lot of music mixed in, sports, news sprinkled here and there, it’s designed to be a blend of public-access education (they played it in factories--installing radio towers where the ~industrial proletariat could have entertainment and ~enrichment was a high priority!), culture, Polish patriotic propaganda, and obviously...fun. Following in my grandpa’s footsteps and becoming a Radio Guy really fast lol 

#interwar polish radio tag #wish my grandpa were alive so i could ask him to teach me about this shit #but he did leave me all his ham radio stuff when he died & there is SO much ham radio stuff #fun fact he avoided being cannon fodder in WWII because he was so autistic about radios they made him #a radio engineer and after the war he got a job as also a radio engineer on the back of his 'i got drafted into the army & #all i got was 'being out of my hometown when the nazis liquidated it & an excuse not to work at the same factory as my dad'' #thing