Read it. >)
"There is a group of kids who, despite incredible odds against them, seem to entirely educate themselves, at least for a part of their school time. We've taken to calling them "dropouts" and browbeating them as society's pariah, but an astonishing number of prominent people are drawn from their ranks. Ray Kroc, who put the zip in McDonalds, was, I believe, one of them.
The best account of self-education I ever read was the autobiography of Ben Franklin, a book I'd like to see in every home for the clear simplicity with which old Ben lays down his own design for expanding the power of mind and character - Using himself as a guinea pig. it seems to have worked. Don't make the common mistake of thinkin Franklin lacked funds and had to make do in this fashion. He was twice enrolled in a prominent private school and twice thrown out, after which he decided he had no more time to waste on that game. Coke Stevenson, the legendary governor of Texas right up to the middle of the twentieth century and one of the sharpest legal minds west of the Pecos, had his own business running fright alone, seventy miles, on mud tracks, before he was fifteen, and hardly ever saw the inside of a schoolroom.
You might be interested in knowing that in 1990 on out of every fifteen millionaires in the United States is a school dropout. I'm not trying to sell you on the idea of encouraging school dropouts necessarily, but I do want to call your attention to the fact that everything is not exactly as it seems. I want you to think for yourself what it is that makes an education instead of just believing what you are told."
- A Different Kind of Teacher.
I've actually dived into this book, for the first time since Joey handed it to me..
For some reason, I was reluctant to start it..I had so many other things on my plate that looked much more appetizing..
But now I feel regret..So far it's made a lot of good points.. But it's also very intimidating, and I'm finding myself a bit afraid..
You'd have to check it out to understand what I mean.
When people always said our school system's messed up, I just nodded.. Now I have a tiny bit of insight to what they mean..
Wow.
The best account of self-education I ever read was the autobiography of Ben Franklin, a book I'd like to see in every home for the clear simplicity with which old Ben lays down his own design for expanding the power of mind and character - Using himself as a guinea pig. it seems to have worked. Don't make the common mistake of thinkin Franklin lacked funds and had to make do in this fashion. He was twice enrolled in a prominent private school and twice thrown out, after which he decided he had no more time to waste on that game. Coke Stevenson, the legendary governor of Texas right up to the middle of the twentieth century and one of the sharpest legal minds west of the Pecos, had his own business running fright alone, seventy miles, on mud tracks, before he was fifteen, and hardly ever saw the inside of a schoolroom.
You might be interested in knowing that in 1990 on out of every fifteen millionaires in the United States is a school dropout. I'm not trying to sell you on the idea of encouraging school dropouts necessarily, but I do want to call your attention to the fact that everything is not exactly as it seems. I want you to think for yourself what it is that makes an education instead of just believing what you are told."
- A Different Kind of Teacher.
I've actually dived into this book, for the first time since Joey handed it to me..
For some reason, I was reluctant to start it..I had so many other things on my plate that looked much more appetizing..
But now I feel regret..So far it's made a lot of good points.. But it's also very intimidating, and I'm finding myself a bit afraid..
You'd have to check it out to understand what I mean.
When people always said our school system's messed up, I just nodded.. Now I have a tiny bit of insight to what they mean..
Wow.