gotta hold onto ONE THING

TRUTH

If you plod along the straight line path of facts and logic, holding to your sanity and what you know to be true, you won’t win the race, but that’s a race over the cliff. 

Go Read the Whole Thing, please.  

Not only do we need to hold truth, logic, ethics and principles close: we need to find those that DO likewise and hold them close.   DO, not ACT, acting is not being truthful, DOING, that means something.

I give Burnout at work a hardtime, constantly on his case with the “Tell the truth, or at least DON’T LIE.” mantra from Jordan Peterson.    I keep trying to give him little tools, phrases to keep in his head while moving through life, guideposts that I wish I had been given 30-40 years back,,,, Like “Hard choices, easy life, easy choices, hard life” and then explain what it means.   Simple words with complicated ideas attached.   

Don’t know that its working, but there are times I hear him mumbling them under his breath.   I hope he does that when he isn’t around me,,, IF he does, then something is gonna stick and maybe, MAYBE, I will have had a positive impact in one person in this reality.

I wanted to be a teacher,  that calling has never waivered in my spirit.  BUT, too be a teacher, you must also be a student, FOR LIFE.  You never stop learning, you never stop integrating that learning.  Not if you are a true teacher, in my opinion.   I recall talking to a friend of friend who is a teacher, and somehow, in the conversation, he mentioned that ‘I don’t read anymore,,, I don’t need to know that stuff, I just need to make sure the kids pass the tests.’  or something to that effect,

And I was FLOORED,,,,,   NO, NO NO!!!!!   That isn’t teaching SHIT!!!  

But that is EXACTLY what public schools want these days: make sure the kids can pass the tests so that the school can maintain a certian budget and to hell with the actual ‘concept’ of passing on KNOWLEDGE, let alone making the next generation a reasonable facsimile of HUMANITY,,,,, 

I rail about the Government, but really, truly, the problems in this country can be traced right back to our current education systems (NOTE plural form) and that really took off under Carter with his NEA creation, and then UNIONS.   Schools are no longer institutions of education but bureaucracies of administration to fleece the taxpayers: actually teaching the kids has been passed over because “Thinkers” would collapse the system they built and milk for personal gains.

If you are a parent, try try try to get your kids out of any ANY public school curriculum.  PERIOD,   If you gotta, find a religious sect nearby and pay for it.  Catholic, Christian, whatever,,,  DO IT.  IF that isn’t feasible, figure out homeschooling options.  And those are growing in leaps and bounds these days, with some communities forming small groups of ‘moms’ to handle the kids so that other parents can maintain a dual income household (Which wouldn’t be neccesary if not for GOVERNMENT/BANKER COLLUSION< but I digress)   The books aren’t the cheapest things in the world, and there are groups that collectively buy such to spread the cost out amongst the whole.   I personally have all the Saxon math books from g5 to Calculus and would be wiling to loan them to a family if need be.  Point being, there are options OTHER THAN the mental abuse that passes as ‘education’ these days.

One truth I face everyday.  I will never be ‘permitted’ to teach while things are on current course and speed.   I might get some chances, in small group, (which I would prefer over formalized class settings) but NEVER with the blessing of STATE.   Too much the anarchist/rebel/contrarian and,,,,,

I want my students to LEARN TO THINK, not just spout facts and figures..   I want them to ask questions.  About everything!    Like “the vaccine is safe and effective’ yet “the makers are protected from legal recourse by end users’: WHY? should have been the first thing out EVERYONE’S mouths when those two statements were in ONE article.    I want my students to see shit like that and without hesitation, start making waves.  

sigh,,,,   maybe someday,,,,