What Am I?

[SamIam]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

I'm a thread killer.

No, you just have an eclectic way of thinking.

And Gravdigr is just a typical Kentuckian.

[Gravdigr]

Originally Posted by SamIam

And Gravdigr is just a typical Kentuckian.

Hey!!!

[xoxoxoBruce]

Are you objecting to typical, or Kentuckian?

3. Education is the most important thing a culture can promote.

The fly in that ointment is promotion of education for education's sake. That's why after 16 years of school so many college graduates are living in Mom's basement with no job and crushing debt. What should be promoted is not education, but learning... learning productive, useful, skills rather than general, useless knowledge.

Bachelor of Arts, lovely... but can you fix your car, bake bread, create anything? Did you even learn critical thinking, or just how to pass courses? Oh yes, you can teach the next generation the same useless shit you were taught, just so they can say they went to college, got an "education".

Hopefully there will always be people like Dana, who picked a section of interest to her, and has worked very hard to increase her knowledge. In doing her research, she's dug into the dusty archives to discover and catalog history so it won't be lost, and more easily available for future scholars in that field. Will it be earth shaking... no. But important to collective human knowledge.

We need scholars, musicians, plumbers, and mechanics, as much as we need physicists and Doctors, but these are all learned skills, not just education.