SoCal23 wrote:
Sweet Mother of Goulash you hit the nail on the head. Not only is there a rise in anti-intellectualism in the U.S but also Anti Intellectual PRIDE.
You know what the worst thing about it is?? I can remember...and I remember being taught this in Baptist, Catholic AND Lutheran schools...that I was taught that being ignorant was not something to be proud of. I was taught that if you did not know, you should ask about something. I was taught that it was not good to associate with ignorant or lazy people. Perhaps more to the point I was taught that ignorance and laziness were NOT attributes a Christian person should have.

My 4th Grade teacher from Lutheran school (one of the people who really drilled that into me) read books like "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" or Shel Silverstein poetry out loud to the class after lunch and wrote sayings on the blackboard such as "the only place success comes before work is in the dictionary." She was a nasty old lady, but by god you learned something in her class one way or the other! She also took a personal interest in the success of her students, ALL of them. She'd rip into parents if she had to, to get them to motivate their kids and when one of the parents I remember seeing her get after was a *Marine* from one of the units at El Toro who happened to show up in Dress Blues to pick up his kid one day for some reason...the kid and I both had detention for some dumb thing or other we were both part of...you do the math about how tough-minded that particular teacher was!

I hear these days that Christian schools often have crappy standards and seem more focused on indoctrinating people than educating them. Well, in the 70's and the 80's that didn't seem to be the case, at least not in the three different denominations schools that I was in.

Integrity above all
Service before self
Excellence in all we do


~United States Air Force core values.


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