School, Roast Chicken, and You

The Industrial Revolution has been over for awhile. Times have changed but many schools haven't.

Now that school has pulled up, turned the engine off, unloaded, and moved into your lives for the next several months, this is a good time to remember something that may help you and your children to navigate your way through. Always remember that education isn't always a function of what your teacher pitches you day in and day out. You have the power to control the direction of your own learning by asking questions, wondering, speculating, thinking, studying further, contradicting and otherwise tilling the soil of what it means to be an intelligent person! You must step forward on your own and be willing to bring something else to it!

Kindergarteners wait around for the worm. By the time you get to 3rd grade, you need to start hunting your own worm. Don't forget the ancient Indian proverb: Man who stand on mountain wait long time for roast chicken to fly in mouth.

Here's cheers to school years. Fare thee well.