| It is essential that the upcoming generation return to an appreciation for learning. Unfortunately, my generation has become ill-prepared to guide their children to this understanding. We will be swamped by ignorance, and a belief that that very ignorance is really a solid education. I myself was truant for most of my high school years and I quit as soon as it was legal (and my father allowed for it). However, I have always maintained a strict personal duty of constant knowledge gathering. Obviously, I am on this site for that very reason. What else can I learn? Is there someone out there who can give me insight into that which I have none? Often, I find a dearth of educated people, even when a degree has been earned. And we, as a country, will suffer detrimentally from this dearth. Those people will be our leaders, elected by others who have no power to think for themselves and who will always follow the path of 'political correctness'. It is simple enough to understand and requires no inspiration or free thought. Unless we open our eyes soon and force the issue, that issue will be forced on us, by an uneducated, defiant chaos that even now may be too late to mend. For how can you force anything on the American public without stirring up constitutional problems. How ironic that our constitution is seen as the inalienable law protecting our right to be unimaginative and ignorant. The world will be different soon. |