On Education
I was homeschooled, and with good reason: the public school I could have gone to for free was below par, substandard in almost every area, and the people (even teachers!) by and large did not care about education. I personally believe that one of the greatest crises in our America today is the lack of and attitude towards schooling. From the moment we are first dropped off to kindergarten to the day we graduate high school and beyond, people in general aren’t exited to learn.
It’s fun to hang out with your friends. I understand. Console and computer games are fun, and now I know that bars have their entertaining points. Sometimes, sitting in a classroom listening to an unskilled lecturing proffessor is not what I want to do. But I know one thing: if I do not take it upon myself to be better educated, then I cannot be a productive and helpful member of our great country. most of the problems we have could be solved simply by being better informed as citizens.
for example, the elections of 04, 08. the candidates were both sub-standard in my opinion. they threw alot of classic political BS at us, and whoever degraded the other’s character the most won. this is bullshit. We need a great leader, not a great slanderer. We need someone who isn’t just interested in what they want. Because people act like sheep, ineffective leaders take the helm.
let me let you in on something I’ve learned. The electoral college was invented during the late 1700′s by the founding fathers to help control election results. It consists of delegates that are appointed to choose the president. the reason that it exists at all was because the founding fathers decided that, even though everyone could vote, the general population was still too uneducated to make a good decision on who to vote for. if there is still an electoral college, it shows that almost two and a half centuries of American education has not advanced us much from the 1700′s.
I’m glad that I was home schooled. I learned different things that I would have If I had stayed in public school, like details on the Electoral College. on the other hand, I missed out on alot of social stuff too. I’m happy I have the grasp of the world that I do, and even though sometimes it’s hard nowadays because I have to learn all the relationship stuff that everyone else already did in high school, I am the individual that my family wanted me to be.
