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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (88668)	4/1/2012 3:52:30 PM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217593

My son is terribly bright and creative. He would not do well at a jr. college. He is headed for a top college. He is also a great swimmer, so maybe some scholarship money will be available to him. I don't like that idea because college swimmers miss out on the college experience - they are either swimming or studying with very little time for anything else. Although I would of course like to minimize college costs, they shouldn't be a problem, but I will make him buy his own goodies.

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (88668)	4/1/2012 11:23:15 PM
From: average joe	2 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217593

There is a big need to revise education systems top to bottom and get rid of teacher unions. It is admirable but pathetic the notion that everyone should be educated to the Ph.D level at taxpayer expense. Message 27109101 Why stop there, how much it would cost to educate everyone to the level of a genius a Newton or da Vinci? It would be much better to direct kids at about grade eight into trades and occupations where they could do some good and by the time they graduate they would be on their way to pulling their own weight. Every now and then the occasional Steve Jobs and Albert Einstein will pop up but it will only be a little to do with their education and lot to do with their genes and drive. I think in Einstein and Jobs case they were just too smart to let their education or lack thereof to hinder them. I wonder how much it would cost to produce another Jefferson? "We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country." "To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical. " "When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty." "I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them." "It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself." "The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead." "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. "