<p>Dale posted a reply* on this topic, but his argument amounts to "the ends justify the means." He ignores objections to the military-industrial complex, instead assuring us with talk of open-source. </p>
<p>Why should the military be funding education when military spending has been astronomical and education spending has been strangled for the past decade?</p>
<p>A principled person would advocate adjusting the budgets of the DoD and DoE instead of siphoning military money to education. The ends don't justify the means. Education is failing partly because teachers are making less than bus drivers yet expected to buy 50-student-classrooms full of supplies; just follow the money (or lack thereof.)</p>
<p>* <a href="http://blog.makezine.com/2012/04/04/makerspaces-in-education-and-darpa/">http://blog.makezine.com/2012/04/04/makerspaces-in-education-and-darpa/</a></p>