“A dog who eats slowly is lonely. Prove me wrong.”
I ask that question of school-age children – up to age 15 or so – everywhere I go. And since real estate is kids and dogs, I meet a lot of children. Guess how many kids know the times table?
Excluding the Testudo families: Zero.
Yes. Zero – the unfathomable quantity. School-age children know nothing, with this situation having gotten substantially worse in my lifetime. (I have to smile at myself, writing so much into a world where fewer and fewer can read.)
Even the bright sparks – which once would have meant the nerds but now apparently means the Marxists – know nothing beyond their indoctrination. The idea of the well-rounded man possessed of a broadly liberating education is now upheld solely by cranks like me.
We’ve been here before. We have Catullus because very dumb monks mistook a Roman of the Romans for a monotheist. No joke. But we ought not be here now.
It is absurd to have to say that there should be no matters of controversy in compulsory eduction. So how much more absurd is it to insist that children actually learn something of the facts of existence in the 10,000 hours they waste at school?
In other news:
CNBC: The future of home ownership is Latino.
Real Clear Energy: Blackouts Loom in California as Electricity Prices Are ‘Absolutely Exploding’.
CNBC: The most liberal and conservative tech companies, ranked by employees’ political donations.
TechnoFog: It is Time to End Compulsory Public Education.
Lee Smith: America’s Top General Read Marx, but Does Not Understand How It’s Destroying America.
