Keith Nuttle wrote:
On 1/29/2015 8:28 PM, Swingman wrote:
On 1/29/2015 4:21 PM, Keith Nuttle wrote:
On 1/29/2015 3:07 PM, Leon wrote:
The life long skills that could be taught in a wood shop would be
thousands of times less expensive than incarcerating those that
have no
other skill and peddle crack on the street corner. For some odd reason
our mentality is switching over to the idea of knowing how to do "ONE"
thing that requires no thinking.

You can not suppress an educated independent population

Depends upon who is in charge of the educating and what their agenda is.

This country has had more money thrown at education than ever before in
human history (Detroit school system a case in point), is more
suppressed than ever with rights continually under assault by the
government and militarized police forces, with more folks in jail (many
corporate, for profit systems), more in poverty, and the majority so
poorly educated, to the point of barely being qualified to flip burgers,
that we must rely on visas to fill the spots that require something
other than a basket weaving curriculum.


You forgot to mention the children that wake up in the morning turn on
the tablet, or computer and text all day until the go to bed that
night. Their parents don't notice as they sit around the living room
texting all of the people they are aware, of and ignore the kids.

The "values" taught by the media (tv, movies, dramas, etc.?)
don't help. How many of them sit around once in a while with a book in
their hand? Get at least get a few to the newsgroup (what's that?)
rec.woodworking where they might gainfully learn to fix a sink!


With this system, we are developing a dysfunctional society with no
skills for physical iterating with the people around them. Kids that
think they are being harassed if you look at them cross eyed, and get
their parent to take person to court for harassing their children.

It is a losing proposition