I just read a thought provoking short article about learning. It was written rather critical about how poorly the USA education system works today. Being short it presented a vague generalization of the situation. But to me it seemed disturbingly probable. It stated how education today is missing the goal of teaching how to think. The goal today is to teach results and provide the answers so no child is left behind. It’s no longer...
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Privacy Opinion
This is an unimpassioned observation, not a rant… 🙂 We American people and certainly the folks in all foreign lands have totally surrendered our privacy to social sharing and government scrutiny. I am aware that everything I do today is being recorded into massive electronic databases for present known and future unknown exploitation. Every public and internet purchase I make using credit cards is stored and examined for information about my habits. This includes every tank of gas or...
Continue reading...The Ant’s Retirement
I have decided that retirement is a line to cross and is not a hole in which to hide. I think the term today is active retirement rather than suspended animation. It is just a point or event in time, like a birthdate. I am born into a new way of thinking and living. As with a new baby, I fill my lungs with a new source of Oxygen and learn to breathe by first...
Continue reading...Retirement – Into The Light and Still Climbing
It’s happened, the first time in over 40 years I am unemployed. Oh? Yeah, some folks call it retired. It was official yesterday; Last working day of February, 2015. I know it’s a record run of continuous but varied employment most people don’t experience. I always had the next employment in hand when I made the changes. This time I am at the far end of the tunnel with as of yet, no solid plan....
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