Why killing Media was killing an investment in the future

[Richmond]

On 07/20/2012 03:25 AM, Lynn Fredricks wrote:
>> It's my personal opinion that we ought to be making a much
>> bigger effort to improve education across the board, and no,
>> more money does not accomplish that goal.
> Im going to dodge the political bullets I hear a buzzing in the air, Bob ;-)
>
> For any education to be at its best, you need to have kids coming from
> healthy, intellectually nurturing homes and neighborhoods, and a pipeline of
> communication. That's a much more complicated question, but solve that and
> the other stuff becomes much easier and cheaper.

Well said. Certainly in Britain (and here in Bulgaria) the end result of 
years of pseudo-socialist
thinking has resulted in a feeling that the state must provide: all 
parents have to do is produce children and after that provide food and 
bed, and everything else will be provided
"from the cradle to the grave" by the nanny state: what happens is one 
gets a race of
slack-jawed passive observers instead of the actively engaged, thinking 
individuals one needs in a healthy society.

Mummy and Daddy should NOT provide little Twinkle-toes with a computer 
hooked up to the
internet so s/he can go blotto on online games and associated crap. 
Mummy and Daddy should provide a computer stuffed with stuff to stretch 
little Twinkle-toes' mind; and that means programming environments. But 
as 90% of parents are f*ckwits, and the state likes that because those 
sort of
'people' (are they fully human?) can be manipulated by the state; that 
doesn't happen.

>
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>
> Lynn Fredricks
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