Growing up to be independent requires independent role models. Today, very few individuals show independence or self determination.
Granted that I grew up in rural Montana. However, my role models were strong, self-made people. My grandfather grew up speaking Yiddish at home. He worked his way through undergrad law school. His wife, m…
Growing up to be independent requires independent role models. Today, very few individuals show independence or self determination.
Granted that I grew up in rural Montana. However, my role models were strong, self-made people. My grandfather grew up speaking Yiddish at home. He worked his way through undergrad law school. His wife, my grandmother, was a Methodist minister's daughter. Their marriage shared their lack of money, but they made lots of money as a team, in Chicago. My Uncle Knute spoke Danish growing up, and had only a high school education, but he could make anything with his hands and the right tools. Role models like these are scarce now.
Education now teaches students that society, and their place in it, are both beyond their control. Schools teach that "experts" are needed to make decisions. Ordinary people are too ignorant and stupid to make their own decisions, according to "experts." Students believe in their lack of ability to influence the future. Schools are grooming kids to be sheep.
Society seems to value woke bureaucrats over daring entrepreneurs. Overregulation, which is obvious at schools, is a discouraging message for kids. Individuals in an education environment have no power. Only woke administrators have power.
Doomsday predictions for the planet are also discouraging. My 5 grandchildren of college age all say they don't want children, because global warming is going to kill the planet. IMO this is malarkey for a number of reasons, but it's advanced for political reasons by watermelons (green outside, red inside) with a lot of collateral damage. Maybe more sheep grooming is possibly an intended outcome?
Growing up to be independent requires independent role models. Today, very few individuals show independence or self determination.
Granted that I grew up in rural Montana. However, my role models were strong, self-made people. My grandfather grew up speaking Yiddish at home. He worked his way through undergrad law school. His wife, my grandmother, was a Methodist minister's daughter. Their marriage shared their lack of money, but they made lots of money as a team, in Chicago. My Uncle Knute spoke Danish growing up, and had only a high school education, but he could make anything with his hands and the right tools. Role models like these are scarce now.
Education now teaches students that society, and their place in it, are both beyond their control. Schools teach that "experts" are needed to make decisions. Ordinary people are too ignorant and stupid to make their own decisions, according to "experts." Students believe in their lack of ability to influence the future. Schools are grooming kids to be sheep.
Society seems to value woke bureaucrats over daring entrepreneurs. Overregulation, which is obvious at schools, is a discouraging message for kids. Individuals in an education environment have no power. Only woke administrators have power.
Doomsday predictions for the planet are also discouraging. My 5 grandchildren of college age all say they don't want children, because global warming is going to kill the planet. IMO this is malarkey for a number of reasons, but it's advanced for political reasons by watermelons (green outside, red inside) with a lot of collateral damage. Maybe more sheep grooming is possibly an intended outcome?