They come to us wanting to hurry up and get “out” and start pursuing their own “stuff” and they want to get the most stuff for the least amount of effort possible. If they for some reason come through their educational experience, unable to obtain a lot of stuff they have no value. It seems to me that the way the educational system is set up we are living this huge lie and that most of these kids see through it from the start and know going in that there is no way they can come out and get a lot of “stuff”.

Consequently, the whole time they spend in education is of little value to them and they spend a whole lot of time being angry because they don’t feel very valuable themselves.

If you can’t pass the test and you can’t make a lot of money - you can’t be happy and what is the point?

We keep trying to perpetuate something that doesn’t even really exist.

I don’t agree with everything on that website, but it seems to me that we spend the biggest part of our time in education trying to cram everyone into the same shape holes and in the process we lose individuality, creativity, and hope and without those then there is no drive to move ahead.

How many minutes do we have if we live to be 65 years old?

What do you remember the most about high school? Were there some defining moments when something you learned turned on a light in your head and stuck with you to this day?

Do we give our kids any of those kind of moments? I know this all sounds very negative but it is how I feel. We don’t tell them that we want them to do well because they might be the one to find a cure for cancer, or a way to increase food production in some country where people are starving (which according to some could be this one eventually) or write a book that will have a profound effect on someone. We tell them we want them to do well so they can get out of school and make lots of money to have lots of stuff.

aaarg - now I’m depressed. I may have to go shopping and get some stuff!