I hated school, graduated high school in 63, college 71, dental school 75. They taught at the level of the slowest kid in the class, it was boring and I was hyperactive, so I am sure the teachers didn't like me. Fortunately they weren't drugging up the hyperactive yet. The only reason I went was sports, if you didn't attend class you didn't get to play sports and I played football, basketball, and track/baseball, so I had to attend. College was the same, and I played baseball, dental school was the same and we were treated like we were in bootcamp. I have never donated. The things I learned were mostly not in class as the necessary things were social learning and how to find what I needed to know. The classroom learning was mostly a waste of time, 90% of it was useless, including dental school. Just jumping through hoops and not learning current techniques. The professors saved those for things you learned after you got your degree of DDS. They got paid for these seminars.
My children were homeschooled, and in 4 hours 4 days a week they completed all the books which the kids in school never even finished and we started 2 weeks late and finished everything in mid April. The kids, 6 of them, then had after school things, track, basketball, chess, band, baseball, and soccer since we were tax payers, so they got their socializing. All now have college degrees, and had good study habits from homeschooling, because they set their own schedules and knew when they finished they were done for the day, the week and the school year, so they always did more than needed each day, then they carried that over into college and graduate school.
Sam is correct, we must return to valuing motherhood and the nurturing of our children. We homeschooled against the tide in the 80’s and have never regretted it. A career is not worth the loss of a child’s character. I find that homeschooled children retain their curiosity and creativity. We need the independent thinkers that result. I have had plenty of time to develop a successful career now that my children are raised. They are successfully homeschooling the next generation now. In terms of career choices, they went to private university or trade schools according to their interests. This is my personal choice as the best path for child rearing.
My best memories were of the summer my Mom homeschooled me using Calvert School's program and materials. I was slow to learn to read as I was not diagnosed as near sighted until 3rd grade. After glasses - Et voila, I could see, I could learn to read. After that I was a voracious reader for life. But, those lessons with my Mom each summer week day, were my special time with her. We were covering maths (my hardest subject) social studies (western civ and classics), language arts (poetry and art) gave me a wonderful love of learning. Had I had to endure the schooling up to that point, I'd never have learned to love to learn or best impact of all to *connect* the flow of art/language into that of history. (Charge of the Light Brigade inspired by the Crimean war and British, for example or Gunga Din as poetry/prose, the Silk Road and trade and food connections it engendered, the adventures of Marco Polo and contributions he brought back from China) That summer will always always be special. As it turned out, I managed to score 3 grade levels above my official school grade levels for the next few years, and I never lost my superiority in Language/Reading and Vocabulary - I managed to get that coveted 800 on the SAT, while still finishing first in the exam room, and not even breaking a sweat. And it was all because of that summer. Children want to learn and given the right method of instruction, give targeted attention and help, they will learn to love to learn.
All of those histories you mentioned are today taught (if you can even use that term) as examples of Western Imperialism and the march of Colonial conquerors in a never-ending quest to rape, pillage, and enslave the world.
BradK I am Not ashamed of the Imperialism. It is what it was. Why am I NOT ashamed to be white and European and learn about it? Because la te dah, I can name you several Imperialistic Empires which have gone on well before the White European's rise (and now fall)... see Assyrians, Persians, Moghuls, Romans, Chinese, Aztec and Incans... all dominated in their time, and fell back into ruin as they out grew what they could support and deteriorated culturally. They left behind marks in the cultures they subsumed or influenced however. Viva White Western Man - his run was long and impressive and he brought forth much that is beautiful and worthy of deep thought and appreciation. ART and CULTURE tie into history and resonate in time and place. Kipling would not have written Gunga Din if he'd not been in India watching the British. For that matter he'd not have written Kim either as he love India and understood it better than most Indians. Charge of the Light Brigade would not have been written minus the Crimean war. Did any yobos in the US even KNOW the history of Crimea, Russia and the Great Game (the concept of which is still very much in evidence today by the way if you are really looking at things)? Nope, very very few, for they never learned about the Charge or the history behind it or what it meant - or for that matter much of ANY history. But if you read, and you love to see influences around you, you will find the echos of the past resonate in the current time you observe and may ripple even further into the future - your future. Yeah. Reading is good, imperialism happened. Being ashamed, screaming 'imperialists are bad indigenous peoples are GREAT' is simply not going to help you move forward in any productive way. PS, I am aware the Western 'cannon' is not to be read by the loony liberal leftists, cause it is you know.... raycists and all that shyte and not inclusive and ... and all about white people's power. That leaves off the Bible, Plato, Aristotle, Algebra and Trig/higher math, Shakespeare, Tolkien, CS Lewis, Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, Swift, Cervantes, Chaucer, Malory, Machiavelli, Dante, Pascal, Voltaire, Pushkin, Chekov, Kipling, Saki, and Bloom's list goes on and on. I'll take them any day over modern tripe. For sheer thought provoking ideas pathos and examination of the human condition.. yes and YES for the win any day. Now. Beat that.
Dr. Malone, this is off-topic perhaps, but because you are a lover of the land, I wanted to ask your advice. I live in Marshall, MI, where Gretchen Whitmer and Ford Motor Company are placing a huge EV battery plant in our beautiful little small town. You may already be aware that Ford is partnering with CATL, a Chinese company whose CEO is a member of a board of the CCP that is trying to work its way into American companies for CCP profit and to propagandize. (This is the very same EV battery plant that Gov. Youngkin rejected.) The 2000 acres that are going towards this plant are prime--and I mean--prime agricultural land, and our area is already losing land to solar farms all over the county. In addition, the site is on the banks of the Kalamazoo River, and a professor of chemistry says that there is no way that the Kalamazoo River watershed and the river itself will not be polluted from the EV plant. Wildlife habitat is being destroyed and historic farms are being displaced. Our little town will be devastated, and we have had no opportunity to have a vote or have a referendum on whether the community wants this, as all of the plans have been done in secret, and it's only in the last month or two that it has been made public because of nondisclosure agreements. Of course, there is lots of federal green energy money coming into the state (although Sen. Rubio says he's against any federal dollars going to this project because of its connection to the CCP). So we are fighting Gov. Whitmer, for whom this is a feather in her cap, the federal government, and Ford. We're in the process of forming a nonprofit so we can solicit donations to hire litigators, but that will take a bit of time. Any advice for us? This is a David and Goliath battle!
Don’t give up & start having people write in the newspaper editorial about it. Find negative CCP articles concerning the board member and share that. Call all your reps. & contact land owners around the area. Keep pushing back. Most of all, don’t give up. CCP are sneaky and they just got kicked out of NY for posing as “ helpful” to their citizens integration into our nation. Yah, right!
Good luck! Sounds like a movie script in the making. Go get ‘em.
You are not barging in at all. Thank you so much for your thoughtful comments. I had hoped Dr. Malone might have some advice as he fights the powers that be, but I know he's very busy. I welcome any and all suggestions because we truly need all the help we can get! Many, many thanks!
Publicity! Let thought leaders everywhere, local/national/global know about it. Write to magazines, editors, post on websites - signs, billboards. Photo the land site as it is now, next to a drawing of the proposed facility. Grass Roots it!
Thank you so much, Leonora. These are all great ideas. I especially like the billboard idea. We're forming a nonprofit so we can take donations, and then perhaps we'll have the money to do something like a billboard and also hire an attorney to see if we can get an injunction. Mostly we're praying a lot.
THANK YOU, THANK YOU for the links to the three books. Budgets are tight, but these are excellent, especially to calmly counter those who have assiduously followed the public narrative. It's not easy being in this thinking minority, and your work and that of the others is what makes the continued discussions possible. Agree fully with Sam Sorbo.
Totally agree that college is (mostly) a scam. But it's important to realize one of the root causes. It's not just college loans that drive up costs and make the institutions unaccountable to their students. It's also:
1. grants and subsidies (from both state and federal govts),
2. property tax exemptions (your local hardware store has to subsidize K-12 education, but Harvard doesn't have to)
3. Here's the big one: licensing laws and government contracts (both state and local) that superficially require a college degree. Thus to hold a salaried position as a lawyer, doctor, nurse, architect, accountant, and a host of government employee or government contractor jobs, you need a degree.
Hence, to end the dependency - and the perceived need for college - we need to ELIMINATE these anti-competitive advantages granted to colleges and universities.
Here's the specific steps needed:
1. Stop giving colleges tax dollars - especially for medical research. This needs to be funded by the private sector.
2. Stop giving them property tax exemption - and lower everyone else's property taxes accordingly.
3. End government-mandated degrees for any purpose - including licensing (and eventually get rid of government licensing all together - the free market does a MUCH better, fairer, safer job of qualifying workers).
Doesn't research funded by the private sector almost guarantee conflict of interest in research results? My opinion is that research associated with anything considered a "public good" (like, say, a healthy productive populace) should be conflict free and funded by public money, with oversight ensuring that public interests are actually served.
Publicly-funded "science" has been thoroughly captured by the pharmaceuticals. Anything but "conflict-free." Private money is competitive and represents all factions, most notably consumers. Organizations like FLCCC and VSRF won't need to worry about being outbid by the big bucks handed out by the likes of Fauci and other corrupt government organizations.
“ In the same way, if you take a six year old, put her in a cage all day, and label it “child,” she becomes a child in name only. The way to save her from the inevitable breakdown such an imprisonment would cause is to make her truly a child again – that is, to let her have a childhood. What we have more and more in this country, as evinced in that disastrous poll above, is children without childhoods – and that is why our pharma execs have never been happier.”
This column about higher education will be difficult for most people to swallow even though it is true. Higher education is not beneficial to most people who go through it. I can say I did benefit but wisely stopped at a 4 year technical biochemistry degree. Going longer would have lessened my commonsense and inherent intuition to the correct answers. Make sure kids start working at 16 part time instead of college prep courses and they will be more focused in their college choices or even to not go to college which might be ok for them.
I agree ! If I had small children in school I would be home schooling. I know several people who homeschool their children. There is a co-op here where they have activities together for the social activities . They have group music classes. . Not all home schoolers are a like. The successful ones have children move on to higher education quickly. With the propaganda being taught in the schools you have to get them out. Schools in California have gotten so bad. I’m grateful I live in a red state. My last 2 children went to a Charter school. You have more say in the curriculum and you can choose the charter school that fits your moral standard.
There are also hybrid schools popping up that have either two or three days in class and the balance at home. I know someone that started one in the 4th largest city and its doing well long after their kids graduated. This allows a good blend at a decent price point and users seem very satisfied.
I totally agree with Sam Sorbo. Great article. I homeschooled our 2 sons in the late 90's and early 2000's. I pulled them from public school in 4th and 5th grades and homeschooled through high school when they graduated from our school and went on to college. They even qualified for a program in college where they attended classes there for 2 days a week during their senior year in our high school. I have never regretted homeschooling and feel that they are now independent thinkers and successful people doing what they love. Totally worth the effort and again, no regrets.
Love reading encouraging takes on homeschooling like this. I am 32 with a 4 yo and 2.5 yo and we plan on homeschooling. If you would’ve asked me 3 years ago if I would’ve ever felt this way…I honestly would have laughed. I went to a public HS and graduated from college. Since then, I have had to do a lot of “unschooling” and unlearn all of the norms I was indoctrinated into. I felt like society and college pushed “education” and career as the only path but now I look around and see a lot of “highly educated” people without a lot of life experience or intelligence and lot of broken families and children. I want different for my children and my family. My husband on the other hand graduated HS and went to the school of hard knocks. Instead of incurring thousands in debt, he became rich in life experiences. He started a business 10 years ago and makes a great living but always insists that I have the most important job: raising our children.
College was very different 45 years ago. After dropping out in my freshman year, I returned at age 27 to UC Santa Barbara, where my secretarial skills got me a job in the English office. I worked 20 hours a week plus vacations and summers, earning enough to pay for my fees, books, and living expenses. I was there to get as broad an education as possible and settled on Medieval Studies. Professors actually taught in those days. I took courses that interested me from the best professors I could find, avoiding areas such as sociology and psychology, which even then didn’t seem real. After graduating with high honors, Phi Beta Kappa, I found an editorial job in school publishing in San Francisco. I had virtually no debt.
What I did relatively easily then has long been impossible. It’s hard to believe that college has degenerated to its current level in my lifetime, while its costs have skyrocketed to about the cost of a starter home in a decent community.
The term "higher education" has become pretty much an oxymoron. They are turning out high school graduates who can hardly read at grade school levels. Call them educated would you? They take a slew of remedial courses in college today just to reach the level of basic education achieved in high school in my day and in elementary school in my mom's. Remember the 3 Rs? Reading (they can't), writing (no longer teach cursive) and ' rithmetic (teach "math" instead, so can derive π but not make correct change).
I worked with an Ivy League University grad. that wasn't able to read. He went back to university after remedial classes because I told him to fight back and they owed him a real education. He now is a counselor in the underserved population and I am so proud that he fought back back.
I hated school, graduated high school in 63, college 71, dental school 75. They taught at the level of the slowest kid in the class, it was boring and I was hyperactive, so I am sure the teachers didn't like me. Fortunately they weren't drugging up the hyperactive yet. The only reason I went was sports, if you didn't attend class you didn't get to play sports and I played football, basketball, and track/baseball, so I had to attend. College was the same, and I played baseball, dental school was the same and we were treated like we were in bootcamp. I have never donated. The things I learned were mostly not in class as the necessary things were social learning and how to find what I needed to know. The classroom learning was mostly a waste of time, 90% of it was useless, including dental school. Just jumping through hoops and not learning current techniques. The professors saved those for things you learned after you got your degree of DDS. They got paid for these seminars.
My children were homeschooled, and in 4 hours 4 days a week they completed all the books which the kids in school never even finished and we started 2 weeks late and finished everything in mid April. The kids, 6 of them, then had after school things, track, basketball, chess, band, baseball, and soccer since we were tax payers, so they got their socializing. All now have college degrees, and had good study habits from homeschooling, because they set their own schedules and knew when they finished they were done for the day, the week and the school year, so they always did more than needed each day, then they carried that over into college and graduate school.
To say I could not agree more with Sam Sorbo would be a colossal understatement!
Sam is correct, we must return to valuing motherhood and the nurturing of our children. We homeschooled against the tide in the 80’s and have never regretted it. A career is not worth the loss of a child’s character. I find that homeschooled children retain their curiosity and creativity. We need the independent thinkers that result. I have had plenty of time to develop a successful career now that my children are raised. They are successfully homeschooling the next generation now. In terms of career choices, they went to private university or trade schools according to their interests. This is my personal choice as the best path for child rearing.
My best memories were of the summer my Mom homeschooled me using Calvert School's program and materials. I was slow to learn to read as I was not diagnosed as near sighted until 3rd grade. After glasses - Et voila, I could see, I could learn to read. After that I was a voracious reader for life. But, those lessons with my Mom each summer week day, were my special time with her. We were covering maths (my hardest subject) social studies (western civ and classics), language arts (poetry and art) gave me a wonderful love of learning. Had I had to endure the schooling up to that point, I'd never have learned to love to learn or best impact of all to *connect* the flow of art/language into that of history. (Charge of the Light Brigade inspired by the Crimean war and British, for example or Gunga Din as poetry/prose, the Silk Road and trade and food connections it engendered, the adventures of Marco Polo and contributions he brought back from China) That summer will always always be special. As it turned out, I managed to score 3 grade levels above my official school grade levels for the next few years, and I never lost my superiority in Language/Reading and Vocabulary - I managed to get that coveted 800 on the SAT, while still finishing first in the exam room, and not even breaking a sweat. And it was all because of that summer. Children want to learn and given the right method of instruction, give targeted attention and help, they will learn to love to learn.
All of those histories you mentioned are today taught (if you can even use that term) as examples of Western Imperialism and the march of Colonial conquerors in a never-ending quest to rape, pillage, and enslave the world.
BradK I am Not ashamed of the Imperialism. It is what it was. Why am I NOT ashamed to be white and European and learn about it? Because la te dah, I can name you several Imperialistic Empires which have gone on well before the White European's rise (and now fall)... see Assyrians, Persians, Moghuls, Romans, Chinese, Aztec and Incans... all dominated in their time, and fell back into ruin as they out grew what they could support and deteriorated culturally. They left behind marks in the cultures they subsumed or influenced however. Viva White Western Man - his run was long and impressive and he brought forth much that is beautiful and worthy of deep thought and appreciation. ART and CULTURE tie into history and resonate in time and place. Kipling would not have written Gunga Din if he'd not been in India watching the British. For that matter he'd not have written Kim either as he love India and understood it better than most Indians. Charge of the Light Brigade would not have been written minus the Crimean war. Did any yobos in the US even KNOW the history of Crimea, Russia and the Great Game (the concept of which is still very much in evidence today by the way if you are really looking at things)? Nope, very very few, for they never learned about the Charge or the history behind it or what it meant - or for that matter much of ANY history. But if you read, and you love to see influences around you, you will find the echos of the past resonate in the current time you observe and may ripple even further into the future - your future. Yeah. Reading is good, imperialism happened. Being ashamed, screaming 'imperialists are bad indigenous peoples are GREAT' is simply not going to help you move forward in any productive way. PS, I am aware the Western 'cannon' is not to be read by the loony liberal leftists, cause it is you know.... raycists and all that shyte and not inclusive and ... and all about white people's power. That leaves off the Bible, Plato, Aristotle, Algebra and Trig/higher math, Shakespeare, Tolkien, CS Lewis, Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, Swift, Cervantes, Chaucer, Malory, Machiavelli, Dante, Pascal, Voltaire, Pushkin, Chekov, Kipling, Saki, and Bloom's list goes on and on. I'll take them any day over modern tripe. For sheer thought provoking ideas pathos and examination of the human condition.. yes and YES for the win any day. Now. Beat that.
Dr. Malone, this is off-topic perhaps, but because you are a lover of the land, I wanted to ask your advice. I live in Marshall, MI, where Gretchen Whitmer and Ford Motor Company are placing a huge EV battery plant in our beautiful little small town. You may already be aware that Ford is partnering with CATL, a Chinese company whose CEO is a member of a board of the CCP that is trying to work its way into American companies for CCP profit and to propagandize. (This is the very same EV battery plant that Gov. Youngkin rejected.) The 2000 acres that are going towards this plant are prime--and I mean--prime agricultural land, and our area is already losing land to solar farms all over the county. In addition, the site is on the banks of the Kalamazoo River, and a professor of chemistry says that there is no way that the Kalamazoo River watershed and the river itself will not be polluted from the EV plant. Wildlife habitat is being destroyed and historic farms are being displaced. Our little town will be devastated, and we have had no opportunity to have a vote or have a referendum on whether the community wants this, as all of the plans have been done in secret, and it's only in the last month or two that it has been made public because of nondisclosure agreements. Of course, there is lots of federal green energy money coming into the state (although Sen. Rubio says he's against any federal dollars going to this project because of its connection to the CCP). So we are fighting Gov. Whitmer, for whom this is a feather in her cap, the federal government, and Ford. We're in the process of forming a nonprofit so we can solicit donations to hire litigators, but that will take a bit of time. Any advice for us? This is a David and Goliath battle!
Not an open question, so sorry if I’m barging in. I would focus on the Chinese owning land and the potential for national security risks, etc.
https://www.newsweek.com/chinese-land-ownership-investment-us-military-bases-1780886
Don’t give up & start having people write in the newspaper editorial about it. Find negative CCP articles concerning the board member and share that. Call all your reps. & contact land owners around the area. Keep pushing back. Most of all, don’t give up. CCP are sneaky and they just got kicked out of NY for posing as “ helpful” to their citizens integration into our nation. Yah, right!
Good luck! Sounds like a movie script in the making. Go get ‘em.
You are not barging in at all. Thank you so much for your thoughtful comments. I had hoped Dr. Malone might have some advice as he fights the powers that be, but I know he's very busy. I welcome any and all suggestions because we truly need all the help we can get! Many, many thanks!
Publicity! Let thought leaders everywhere, local/national/global know about it. Write to magazines, editors, post on websites - signs, billboards. Photo the land site as it is now, next to a drawing of the proposed facility. Grass Roots it!
Thank you so much, Leonora. These are all great ideas. I especially like the billboard idea. We're forming a nonprofit so we can take donations, and then perhaps we'll have the money to do something like a billboard and also hire an attorney to see if we can get an injunction. Mostly we're praying a lot.
THANK YOU, THANK YOU for the links to the three books. Budgets are tight, but these are excellent, especially to calmly counter those who have assiduously followed the public narrative. It's not easy being in this thinking minority, and your work and that of the others is what makes the continued discussions possible. Agree fully with Sam Sorbo.
Totally agree that college is (mostly) a scam. But it's important to realize one of the root causes. It's not just college loans that drive up costs and make the institutions unaccountable to their students. It's also:
1. grants and subsidies (from both state and federal govts),
2. property tax exemptions (your local hardware store has to subsidize K-12 education, but Harvard doesn't have to)
3. Here's the big one: licensing laws and government contracts (both state and local) that superficially require a college degree. Thus to hold a salaried position as a lawyer, doctor, nurse, architect, accountant, and a host of government employee or government contractor jobs, you need a degree.
Hence, to end the dependency - and the perceived need for college - we need to ELIMINATE these anti-competitive advantages granted to colleges and universities.
Here's the specific steps needed:
1. Stop giving colleges tax dollars - especially for medical research. This needs to be funded by the private sector.
2. Stop giving them property tax exemption - and lower everyone else's property taxes accordingly.
3. End government-mandated degrees for any purpose - including licensing (and eventually get rid of government licensing all together - the free market does a MUCH better, fairer, safer job of qualifying workers).
Doesn't research funded by the private sector almost guarantee conflict of interest in research results? My opinion is that research associated with anything considered a "public good" (like, say, a healthy productive populace) should be conflict free and funded by public money, with oversight ensuring that public interests are actually served.
Publicly-funded "science" has been thoroughly captured by the pharmaceuticals. Anything but "conflict-free." Private money is competitive and represents all factions, most notably consumers. Organizations like FLCCC and VSRF won't need to worry about being outbid by the big bucks handed out by the likes of Fauci and other corrupt government organizations.
That's part of what the oversight would be doing. Will it ever happen? I'm not holding my breath.
College used to mean something. I am not sure if it still does.
It's now indoctrination. Learn to fit pipe. We will always have shit, and need pipes to move it.
No pun intended? That was spot on! Really, you are so correct!
Amen! Preach it!
Very much related to the power of big pharma, by the way, as I try to explain here:
https://gaty.substack.com/p/the-good-portion-a-warning-to-parents
“ In the same way, if you take a six year old, put her in a cage all day, and label it “child,” she becomes a child in name only. The way to save her from the inevitable breakdown such an imprisonment would cause is to make her truly a child again – that is, to let her have a childhood. What we have more and more in this country, as evinced in that disastrous poll above, is children without childhoods – and that is why our pharma execs have never been happier.”
Don't forget the free books offered by Dr. Malone. Literally took less than 20 seconds to order all 3 as an Amazon Kindle user. Much thanks Doc....
This column about higher education will be difficult for most people to swallow even though it is true. Higher education is not beneficial to most people who go through it. I can say I did benefit but wisely stopped at a 4 year technical biochemistry degree. Going longer would have lessened my commonsense and inherent intuition to the correct answers. Make sure kids start working at 16 part time instead of college prep courses and they will be more focused in their college choices or even to not go to college which might be ok for them.
I agree ! If I had small children in school I would be home schooling. I know several people who homeschool their children. There is a co-op here where they have activities together for the social activities . They have group music classes. . Not all home schoolers are a like. The successful ones have children move on to higher education quickly. With the propaganda being taught in the schools you have to get them out. Schools in California have gotten so bad. I’m grateful I live in a red state. My last 2 children went to a Charter school. You have more say in the curriculum and you can choose the charter school that fits your moral standard.
There are also hybrid schools popping up that have either two or three days in class and the balance at home. I know someone that started one in the 4th largest city and its doing well long after their kids graduated. This allows a good blend at a decent price point and users seem very satisfied.
I totally agree with Sam Sorbo. Great article. I homeschooled our 2 sons in the late 90's and early 2000's. I pulled them from public school in 4th and 5th grades and homeschooled through high school when they graduated from our school and went on to college. They even qualified for a program in college where they attended classes there for 2 days a week during their senior year in our high school. I have never regretted homeschooling and feel that they are now independent thinkers and successful people doing what they love. Totally worth the effort and again, no regrets.
Love reading encouraging takes on homeschooling like this. I am 32 with a 4 yo and 2.5 yo and we plan on homeschooling. If you would’ve asked me 3 years ago if I would’ve ever felt this way…I honestly would have laughed. I went to a public HS and graduated from college. Since then, I have had to do a lot of “unschooling” and unlearn all of the norms I was indoctrinated into. I felt like society and college pushed “education” and career as the only path but now I look around and see a lot of “highly educated” people without a lot of life experience or intelligence and lot of broken families and children. I want different for my children and my family. My husband on the other hand graduated HS and went to the school of hard knocks. Instead of incurring thousands in debt, he became rich in life experiences. He started a business 10 years ago and makes a great living but always insists that I have the most important job: raising our children.
College was very different 45 years ago. After dropping out in my freshman year, I returned at age 27 to UC Santa Barbara, where my secretarial skills got me a job in the English office. I worked 20 hours a week plus vacations and summers, earning enough to pay for my fees, books, and living expenses. I was there to get as broad an education as possible and settled on Medieval Studies. Professors actually taught in those days. I took courses that interested me from the best professors I could find, avoiding areas such as sociology and psychology, which even then didn’t seem real. After graduating with high honors, Phi Beta Kappa, I found an editorial job in school publishing in San Francisco. I had virtually no debt.
What I did relatively easily then has long been impossible. It’s hard to believe that college has degenerated to its current level in my lifetime, while its costs have skyrocketed to about the cost of a starter home in a decent community.
The term "higher education" has become pretty much an oxymoron. They are turning out high school graduates who can hardly read at grade school levels. Call them educated would you? They take a slew of remedial courses in college today just to reach the level of basic education achieved in high school in my day and in elementary school in my mom's. Remember the 3 Rs? Reading (they can't), writing (no longer teach cursive) and ' rithmetic (teach "math" instead, so can derive π but not make correct change).
I worked with an Ivy League University grad. that wasn't able to read. He went back to university after remedial classes because I told him to fight back and they owed him a real education. He now is a counselor in the underserved population and I am so proud that he fought back back.
Sam's husband has been doing God-themed movies for years. In this video Sam and Kevin talk about Hollywood and Home School.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdDSTbsWObc