I wasn't privileged enough to have boots much less boot straps. We had bark from a tree and rubber bands*

* (translation for the Massholes: rubber bands are the Midwest version of what you'se guys call elastics)

Yeah... all that don't mean sh*t unless you got lucky.

I don't do bootstraps and scratchoffs and I don't have student debt... so I guess I'm just here to talk sh*t you lucky dog you.... you miss the hood life? Oh wait... hockey, that's right. Ya, you got lucky.

Funny how vae victis applies to everyone but southern whitey.

Thanks for the read TDub...

Learnt it from war medicine

Sometimes I read something from somewhere unrelated, learn something then apply it to something totally unrelated rather than just repeating something I’ve heard supported by a YouTube video then challenge someone to argue with the video.

I’m weird.

Funny though the origin is you.

Bought a print and shirt. Love the print. I stare at it while on video conferences. Ties old to new and intrigues me.

I’m simple.

Bgz ie you taught me that but didn’t know it.

He works in strange ways.

Yea bgz is weird.

I don’t think he works much though 😟

Hey now, my post was short, after hours and I type 100 wpm (slowed down in my old age).

Anyway, that's awesome stuff.

Unfortunately I don't have a sword to throw on the pile. All I have is a glock :/

If it's matched in gold, I got a shotty too.

Moral of the story... teedub is smarter than all you people. He reads and stuff... he's edumacated.

Not really. It has less to do with resting on laurels and more to do with what have you done for me lately. I think you missed the point.

You don’t need education to continuously learn and think for yourself.

If you truly want to think for yourself,
You must first separate yourself from the pathetic educational system...

Biden wants to counter such unpatriotic feelings like that with 4 more years of forced gubment indoctrination.

"The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable." - H. L. Mencken

Only if you fear you are weak minded and that all/most learning is rote and you can easily be indoctrinated.

Higher education is really about learning critical thinking skills and how to think for yourself using certain processes and tools. It really isn't about being indoctrinated despite what some think. And the "some" include some in the academic fields (professors etc.) that I assume do have that somewhat on their agenda.

It all comes back to self control and personal responsibility rather than blame. I can think of a couple instances where my grade was effected because I had a different world view than the prof. But those were the exception not the rule. They tend to get described as the rule by those that haven't been exposed to higher learning in a long time if at all. And I too have not been there in a long time. Maybe it has changed drastically and it is more like Jonestown now. I somehow doubt it but I only have my experience and what I see from my kids.

Not directed at izon at all but...

The insistence that higher education is bad, experience is bad, experts are bad, etc. is laughable. It is a low brow way of discounting things and is really saying uneducated and inexperienced knows more. Think about that. It's a bait and switch to get folks to accept nonsense at times. The next step is accepting ideas and theories from somewhere presumably with less education and less experience on any given subject. And that makes sense somehow.

Interesting commentary on a trend that could lead to idiocracy.

What do you mean lead to...

What you're envisioning is my state lol.