My Sister-in-law, who's into mysticism (which I'm obviously not) gave me a t-shirt for Christmas I absolutely love.

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20. There have always been two extremes in education. My father had an 8th grade education, dropped out to support...

...his family as a shoe shine boy during the Roosevelt Administration.

He hated Roosevelt all his life, and voted for exactly one Democrat before he died, Harry Truman. He thought Richard Nixon was a great President, loved Ronald Reagan, his last vote before dying having been for George H.W. Bush.

His mathematical ability never stretched beyond addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, the latter with some trouble.

He was a laborer, and worked in a warehouse moving boxes until the company shut it down.

I am very well educated, have never, not once, voted for a Republican, because the tools for education - which my parents were wise enough to encourage me to use, their own limitations having had consequence - were there.

It is a long time since I needed a school to learn new things. I am, as each of my well educated sons is as well, an autodidact. The core remains, and while much might burn, the truth will somewhere be left in the ashes.

I'm not all that much longer for this planet, but I have faith that there is no cause for surrender, even if I do not live long enough to see some victory over fear and ignorance.

There are children who know that quantum mechanics is a thing. They are the cores in the ashes.