A quote shared by a friend of mine on Facebook...

[BrotherIvan]

42. I wish your son the best of luck

I wish I had done something like that. He will get so much real life experience and get to see things that will shape his ideas. Our current idea of going to school and then jumping into a job is by design to narrow our world view and turn us into merely consumers. People should be encouraged to travel and learn about themselves before they settle down.

I am always lamenting that intelligence is no longer valued. I can see why to some extent; the "smart" people are usually arrogant CEOs or financial types that we must laud while they are paid huge salaries for being little more than criminals. If we valued intelligence and education, we wouldn't pay our teachers so little and our coaches so much. I now think of the pursuit of knowledge as my special hobby. I have often been scolded for being "too intellectual" at gatherings, so I stopped going for the most part. It is sort of isolating when you can't have a conversation above mundane subjects. But oh well, there's a whole world of books to read, so there's never a dull moment!