I do not understand why we have not educated our people better. And I loved school, I loved my teachers, and I loved the beautiful women, and I enjoy learning and growing. We need for the young men to appreciate getting an education, you cannot just get by as a coal miner anymore, and also an education is great. They can drink wine and they can discuss Euclidean Geometry, etc. And Poetry, and Theatre, etc. And film, and music, etc.
Bambu, watch the movie "Summer Lovers" with Daryl Hannah, we can build that same housing in Battle Mountain, Nevada, and we could have swimming pools and tennis courts, and libraries, and movie theatres, etc, etc, etc. We can have a Commune in Battle Mountain that can be like Greece out in the middle of Nevada on the Cowboy Highway.
Education is fun. Science is fun. Space exploration is fun, high speed trains are fun, electric cars are fun. Jet planes are fun. Philosophy is fun. Etc. They can study everything in Kentucky, and in Arkansas, and in Battle Mountain, Nevada.
Also, Playboy Magazine needs to bring in some great young geniuses from National Lampoon at Harvard and they need to save Playboy, and Universal can buy Playboy and they can bring back the Playboy Channel, and one new series for the Playboy Channel can be the Slocum Westerns by Jake Logan, Hef loved the Slocum Westerns, they are Westerns with hot beautiful women, so the Slocum Westerns can be made at Universal and the series can be shown on the new Playboy Channel that can be made at Universal Studios here in Hollywood, California.
Salute,
Tony V.
"Euclidean geometry"?
Yikes.
That sounds like one step down from "rocket science".
I was flying at school, until I was 12, ...until I hit high school.
In the first three years HS was OK, there was an exam "Intermediate Certificate" end of the third year. And 15, I passed (about 70% in every subject).
You were given a Certficate.
Then, you could legally leave school...which the future mrs bambu did, in a very rural area. Moved to the big city to attend "Business college"...shorthand/typing/ basic bookwork-accounting/receptionist/telephonist.
Like Dolly and the gals in the movie '9 to 5'.
Most of the boys in my all-boys high school were 13 going on 7 when they hit high school, and 18 going on 10 when they left.
'Mommy's boys'...no idea much about girls, no idea much about the rest of the world, certainly not much idea about life beyond school, or the workforce.
You did what your parents told you, "seen but not heard" most of the time.
Boys whose parents were wealthy enough to send them to private schools received a much better education, were absolutely better prepared for life, and did better in the workforce and "business" than those who attended public govt schools.
There should be basic HS education so every student graduates after 3 or 4 years, ("high school failure" is no recipe for prospective workforce success), then another 2 years for those wishing to be educated to a higher standard, and/or attend university.
A Masters in Russian Literature has limited employment potential, seems to me.
