Imaginative learners who are actually encouraged to seek their interests inside of our decaying school system, are the last of a necessary breed of people, who are the sole repository of a progressive and most valuable resource of the human species.
Boards of Education throughout the United States are increasingly made up of sycophantic narcissists, who are ill-prepared to forgo their trips through the "land of egomania" in order to allow for the furtherance of a stronger nation through the growth of its intellectual resources: namely, learned people.
I have sat through numerous hours of unproductive school board meetings and public gatherings and I have a conclusion of the process, which in and of itself is my own opinion and not the end of the discussion in any sense: the system is not broken; it is dead, and our children are being fed this diet of decaying and destructive pieces of lies in order to justify the budgets and the official positions of people who are "paycheck only" extroverts, who possess little to no care for or of their charges, and the lives they will be forced to live, due to their "indoctrination into stupidity"!
I attended college and I learned immediately that I would be the recipient of a large bill after at least four years, and not much more. I listened to professor after another, who regaled us with tales of the magnanimousness in "staying behind" to teach the next set of leaders.
The sickening thud which we are hearing more and more is the sound of the IQs of our young people, as they fall deeper into a pit of deliberate design.
I am frightened, but I have hope for a upswing in learning environments that are not chained to this system of "Deaducation" as I am more frequently referring to it these days. Homeschoolers are being allowed to learn more and more about subjects which support their interests, and not only a set of required courses which have the tendency of producing less than likely leaders of progressive thinking people who want to help society, in opposition to only selfishly helping themselves at the expense of other people.
I hold out hope. Clear-thinking, and substantive builders of society are still possible, they are the last hope of a dying need for smart people to overcome the expectations of simply being intelligent. All people have a level of intelligence; smart people learn how to use and to upgrade their intellectual strengths in a way which produces a better situation than the one into which they entered.
Smart people help other people to matter, no matter their social status, or their financial needs. This dying breed, are the foundation, they will prevail, even in the bleak and dead-air atmosphere under which we now find ourselves.
My mother and father expressed no tolerance for being satisfied with being mediocre. Each was a product of a lifestyle where education was not even secondary on the minds of their parents, in its place were the necessities to provide for the family, and to assure the next meal to be eaten.
Children in their eyes, were future workers who would add to the till and feed the family with the works of their hands.
Readin' N' ritin' was not important, to these people' providing for the family was their sole concern.
My dad was a dropout by the sixth grade: not by his choosing to be, but by his parent's making it so to be. He missed out on high school and the growth that is supposed to come through the socialization process. He did however, receive his GED, and then he went on to excel in college, where he eventually acquired a masters degree!
I was so proud of him the day he walked across the stage!
He never let any of us give up, even when it seemed impossible that we would learn the subject. he would point to his hands and tell us that this was not what we wanted to see, when we went to wash our hands.
He argued with the school district superintendent when a decision to disallow certain books in the library was arbitrarily enforced upon each of the schools where we were attending.
I developed my "every book, should at least be available" train of thought. I was suspended five times for refusing to give up on trying to get a copy of the "catcher in the Rye". I was removed from a class for reading the "Five Chinese Brothers" in front of my teacher during a break.
his was my reality, and I did not understand, I just knew that it felt right to fight for the right to read these and any other books that were available to children at the time.
Education is nothing but wasted time, without actual learning!
Do not get sucked in; time is running forward, get moving, or get run over.