I was fortunate enough to have grown up in an affluent setting, in which my parents were able to join a nice country club near Philadelphia when I was 12 years old. The kids with whom I played golf and tennis all came from similar settings, but they had a wide ranges of aptitudes and intelligences.
For example, there was a kid we all knew to seriously unintelligent, and there was another who seemed smart enough, who went to a 325-year-old Quaker prep school and then on to Princeton.
One of them posted the meme here, though remarkably, it could have been either one.
While I don’t know what became of the “seriously unintelligent” one as far as his education is concerned, the Princeton grad went on to post on Facebook about the importance of building the wall, closing the borders that the Democrats had opened to human vermin, English as the only language in the U.S., the climate “hoax,” COVID as part of a government plan to enslave all Americans, etc.
Seems like a lot of wasted money, since that level of education is available at Walmart. But to each his own.
We’ve all heard ideas like the one being expressed here, though this one sounds extreme. Jail sentence? Education is exclusively an exercise in pounding in bad habits?
What’s the outcome for students in the very worst of our schools that make no attempt whatsoever to help its pupils learn to think critically? Well, their kids learn to:
- Read and write
- Do math, at least through algebra
- Understand some level of history and geography
- Make friends and get along with others
- Establish independence from the parents
- Gain the qualifications for employment
What’s the alternative? Illiteracy? Social isolation? Child labor? Poverty? Neurotic sloth? Being a burden on society?
Is it a coincidence that the countries with the best educated children are the happiest, sanest and most productive nations on the planet?
If you’re a competent woman working at the highest echelon in the U.S. government, better start packing your bags.
Today we had another “assassination attempt.”
Is it the fourth or the fifth? I lost track after his ear grew back.
Eventually, after perhaps 20 or 30, even the most dimwitted American will recognize that he’s been played.
Trump is a man of God like I’m a bald eagle.
How Much Further Does the Trust of the American People Extend?
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