reason we were able to embrace politics and our hippie ways was because we had great public schools

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4. We certainly learned how to make a movement.

What an incredible time. I certainly do not mean that as incredible (good,fun) time, but it was that too in a lot of ways. We were doing more in my little city to protest the war than you see now. Where there are 7 people on the street corner now there would have been hundreds. Maybe that was the effect of the draft but we did do it, we got out and we did it.

My government class was taught by a man barely older than we were who looked like Paul McCartney. We sat in a group outside under a tree and passed around juice to share. We were learning so much. After a couple of months he left, he was drafted. Our new teacher was not as good but we still learned and argued and were not castigated for our ideas or ideals only presented other ways of thinking that we actually talked about without rancor.

Yeah, I'm a geezer but I do think our education was better. It was guided towards learning for information and personal fulfillment not just learning for a job.