Outstanding discourse Robert. It has been over half a century since I read Khalil Gilbran's the Prophet, although I dispute that he was Lebanese, as Lebanon was not then a country. More of a Persian, and by that I don't mean Iranian, that is also a later invention.
I consider myself an autodidcact, because even though I have a Masters deg…
Outstanding discourse Robert. It has been over half a century since I read Khalil Gilbran's the Prophet, although I dispute that he was Lebanese, as Lebanon was not then a country. More of a Persian, and by that I don't mean Iranian, that is also a later invention.
I consider myself an autodidcact, because even though I have a Masters degree, my knowledge base is not that taught in brainwashing factories, but from my own reading, and interests which are still eclectic.
I'm a HS drop out, who within 8 months passed both a HS GED and an AA GED (they had such a thing back in 1958). Graduated from university with a 3.74 GPA and a Masters with 3.47 GPA, and essentially discarded most of the swill that they tried to indoctrinate me with. But first you need to read and write, and that can be done with starting kids off with an Alphabet Book.
I have bought and am buying my bisnieto a library of bilingual books, including bi linqual books and he is not yet 2 (big birthday present coming for him).
Education is important but not the homogenious social reinforcement skill that are shoved down kids throats, at the same time kids need the social exposure that school provides, from that they learn h ow to survive, but these days of internet education (and I include Tik Tok, Instagram, Telegram, what not is not education it is mind rot. One must learn how to interact wiith other people from an early age, otherwise they grow up as tools and fools.
My sis was very religious, and wanted to protect her youngest from the vagaries and realities of life, so she home schooled her daughter and her social life was confined to church. She did a great job of imparting essential and socialy accepted knowledge, as she won a full scholarship, but coming into contact with the real world, and no longer protected,she was naive, and vulnerable to being exploited. She wound up with teaching credentials, took a position in W VA, teaching her own peers, and her life went downhill after that., into drug abuse, being in a relationship with a low life drug abusing red neck, ran over by a drug abusing redneck in a pick up truck, in a supermarket parking lot, and it only gets worse.
Question is how do you develop inquisitive, critical thinking skills, and teach kids not to believe everything you see and hear, to arrive at one's own opinions and not acquire them because some "authority" exposes you, or tells you that "they are the truth".
I started on my own path at age 8, when I read The Odyessey by Homer, intrigued I knew it was ancient Greek fiction, then at age 12 I read the Bible, and once again realized that I was reading fiction. Most of the swill be it history or economics, even sometimes science,has proven to be fiction.
Children need an education, but a real one, where they are taught and praised for critical thinking, not punished because they don't digest the swill.
Thom has done a great service in providing information that enables people to learn "Hidden History" You won't find his info, ideas or writings in curiculum or even libraries.
Outstanding discourse Robert. It has been over half a century since I read Khalil Gilbran's the Prophet, although I dispute that he was Lebanese, as Lebanon was not then a country. More of a Persian, and by that I don't mean Iranian, that is also a later invention.
I consider myself an autodidcact, because even though I have a Masters degree, my knowledge base is not that taught in brainwashing factories, but from my own reading, and interests which are still eclectic.
I'm a HS drop out, who within 8 months passed both a HS GED and an AA GED (they had such a thing back in 1958). Graduated from university with a 3.74 GPA and a Masters with 3.47 GPA, and essentially discarded most of the swill that they tried to indoctrinate me with. But first you need to read and write, and that can be done with starting kids off with an Alphabet Book.
I have bought and am buying my bisnieto a library of bilingual books, including bi linqual books and he is not yet 2 (big birthday present coming for him).
Education is important but not the homogenious social reinforcement skill that are shoved down kids throats, at the same time kids need the social exposure that school provides, from that they learn h ow to survive, but these days of internet education (and I include Tik Tok, Instagram, Telegram, what not is not education it is mind rot. One must learn how to interact wiith other people from an early age, otherwise they grow up as tools and fools.
My sis was very religious, and wanted to protect her youngest from the vagaries and realities of life, so she home schooled her daughter and her social life was confined to church. She did a great job of imparting essential and socialy accepted knowledge, as she won a full scholarship, but coming into contact with the real world, and no longer protected,she was naive, and vulnerable to being exploited. She wound up with teaching credentials, took a position in W VA, teaching her own peers, and her life went downhill after that., into drug abuse, being in a relationship with a low life drug abusing red neck, ran over by a drug abusing redneck in a pick up truck, in a supermarket parking lot, and it only gets worse.
Question is how do you develop inquisitive, critical thinking skills, and teach kids not to believe everything you see and hear, to arrive at one's own opinions and not acquire them because some "authority" exposes you, or tells you that "they are the truth".
I started on my own path at age 8, when I read The Odyessey by Homer, intrigued I knew it was ancient Greek fiction, then at age 12 I read the Bible, and once again realized that I was reading fiction. Most of the swill be it history or economics, even sometimes science,has proven to be fiction.
Children need an education, but a real one, where they are taught and praised for critical thinking, not punished because they don't digest the swill.
Thom has done a great service in providing information that enables people to learn "Hidden History" You won't find his info, ideas or writings in curiculum or even libraries.