Americans are able to be employed full-time and still wind up below the poverty line. That is what happens when people of bad character become highly educated.

Someone emailed me and said they thought I was stating that uneducated people had ‘bad character’ traits. No, I was stating that people are deprived of their opportunities for living wages and good educations BY those highly educated bad characters who feel their prosperity is only attainable if others are deprived of their chances to achieve it.

Women don’t prosper in a climate of desperation and ignorance where the status quo is clung to with even greater tenacity than usual.

There aren’t many high school drop-outs forming successful corporations these days and you can no longer just take a proficiency test to become a member of the bar. The education of women is what allows some of us to lead independent lives, rather than be forced into marriage and motherhood. The education of some men is what led to women obtaining even the limited permissions and opportunities present for us today. No one working the register at Walmart is going to have a big impact upon society but has a great likelihood of winding up on a section 8 voucher as one of the ‘perks’ of having a lower echelon job. Americans are able to be employed full-time and still wind up below the poverty line. That is what happens when people of bad character become highly educated.

For the rest, in brief, there is a time limit in which the basic neurological structures and functions must develop for future learning. Experience coupled with social interaction is actually observable in the degree to which the cerebral cortex acquires larger surface areas for function. Language must develop by about 4 or 5 if it is to be a viable system for learning and expression. However, literacy is often better left to formal instruction later in childhood. Scandinavians enjoy full literacy and don’t begin teaching reading until verbal language skills have been well established around age seven. We keep screwing up when we pound phonics into the heads of kids who can’t even retell a simple story.

I used to work in the field of developmental disabilities and speech pathology. I can no longer work because ‘educated’ people of bad character have convinced the uneducated masses (of mixed characters) that the use of poisons is perfectly harmless and only genetically inferior people can be harmed by them. Yet, one in six of our children have disabilities today. No amount of education can overcome those odds. Only an educated individual can tell one of the science whores avowing that global warming isn’t a threat to go screw himself. “No Child Left Behind” was no accident in its emphasis on test scores (fact regurgitation) and no interest in developing wisdom. It keeps TPTB in power.

Uncanny. Do you think male supremecists pair the two deliberately, or is it strictly subconscious?

If I’ve learned one thing about raising my daughter, it’s that she does eventually pick this stuff up. I am not the most organized, go-get-em type of person, and she was kind of late potty-training. I was starting to fret and to check books out of the library about quick-training methods… and then she decided on her own to just use the potty. Just like that. She’d seen me do it a million times and figured she could handle it, and she hasn’t worn diapers or pull-ups since.

She’s done that with a few other things. Now she’s starting to learn how to spell her name at age four. I haven’t pushed her at all, just demonstrated it. I suspect the rest will follow naturally if I don’t make her hate it and just sort of guide her way.

He’d also tell you, with a straight face (and you can take that any way you like, as he was that as well), that he was feminist. And liberal. Do tell.

As for the conversation here about homeschooling, personally, I don’t care what people teach their kids. Let’s face it, most of us never turn out to be Speshul Snowflakes (misspelling intended for sarcastic effect), and we forget more than half of what we were schooled in anyway. I learned about science despite my public school curriculum, not because of it, for the most part. Despite the vast majority of American students being public-schooled, we’re still appallingly illiterate in scientific concerns.

And… it doesn’t matter. People who can’t be bothered to learn things on their own are going to turn out useless no matter where they were educated (or schooled, not the same thing). There are college graduates who can’t find jobs; there are high school dropouts founding corporations. It’s more about personal character than whether your parents taught you about evolution. Even people who believe evolution happens don’t always understand how it works.

I was told that I would have to agree that my child watched NO television and played NO video games because it would ruin my child’s imagination. It was very restrictive in the way that you had to follow their philosophy. The said that you were only allowed to send foods in their lunch boxes (organic type stuff – no chocolate milk). The parents were kind of creepy although I can’t really explain why.

This might be that bit in the movie where everyone looks at the idiot in silence:

‘Oh no, a killer’s gonna get me!/ sarcasm’.

Ya know, just before he gets killed.

Seriously, that is the only way I’m going to derisively tell people to relax from now on. Which I rarely do. I guess I’ll have to start doing it all the time, so that I can use my delightful new catchphrase.