Overnight News: With public schooling’s self-destruction, kids who ‘think different’ will get a chance at an education.

So my wife cooks with the big ugly pans, and she leaves them dirty because she know I don’t like for her to wash the big ugly stuff. But she leaves all the other dishes dirty, too, knowing that I can’t wash the big ugly pans until all the smaller stuff is out of the way. But the joke is on her, because I like doing the dishes when there are a lot to be done. I am Driven first, Incandescent second. The only jobs I like are the ones where I can literally see the difference.

I smile. We study logical fallacies and cognitive biases – and so we should: Truth is more than just the absence of error, but error is a malign infestation, always worthy of eradication. But even then we are haughtily Ci, or at best Cs. Every other way of looking at the world is lost to us – and everyone who doesn’t mimic or at least idolize Ci is entirely excluded from the conversations of civilization.

I am twice delighted to see public education blowing itself up. At its best it was an awful usurpation of parental authority. By now, it is simply state-sponsored Marxism. But parents seeking alternatives means that some huge fraction of the current generation of school-kids is going to learn to read. That’s a low bar, I know, but some is better than none. Better yet: Some huge fraction of the kids public schools routinely throw away will get a shot at an education, for an earth-shaking change.

If you think Ci gnome-scoffing is the only path to truth, put down your phone – which you owe to the inexhaustible Di energy of Steve Jobs.

Now that’s a man who made differences everyone can see – but think of what today’s public schools would do to him…

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