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just a thought...are any of the students in schools today taught "consequences?" since "paddles" were taken out of the hands of teachers in the mid-60s and social services has dictated how parents can discipline their children for the past couple of decades, maybe we need another branch of education to serve as an adjunct to "readin', writin', and 'rithmatic?"
"hey kid...wanna act like a jerk? wanna end up a clerk at radio shack or a floor-walker at wal-mart after 20 years of hangin' out with the boyz in the hood? or do you wanna get a grip on life and enter the wonderful world of newton? for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction! smarten up before it's too late!"
i know numerous principals, administrators, and school board members in school systems in new york and florida and i don't miss too many opportunities to espouse my views on the direction in which i see our future "citizens" headed. they respond as if their hands are tied. are they?
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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done."
- Robert S. McNamara
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"We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches...
We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles."
- Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message"
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never wrestle with a pig.
you both get dirty;
the pig likes it.
Last edited by uncle phil; 02-24-2006 at 12:35 PM..
Reason: minor punctuation correction...
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