Yes, John, makes sense to me. You keep forcing me to re-think my educational
bigotry and I thank you for this. In not expressing my bias towards the
educational system I end up feeling like a surviving hog that is asked to accept
the slaughter house. But once I oink loudly I find that there is no slaughter
house, just more confused pigs. It is not that I am defending illiteracy,
widespread ignorance, or anti-social behavior, I am trying to defend that there
are other ways of education besides the formal system and that they should not be
ignored or discounted because they do not fit within a conveniently advertised
package. It irritates me when one means of education is pushed on people and the
other means are not even mentioned, or are mentioned as useless. Education should
be gauged not by what you say you did, but by what you can do. The question that
nags me, which I cannot get tied down, is why do I feel I have to be defensive?

John Callan wrote:

> In a message dated 10/17/98 1:10:21 PM, [log in to unmask] wrote:
>
> <<problem w/ formal education>>
>
> Formal, informal, tolerating the snobs, finding a quiet place to think a
> thought, finding someone to show your hands how to roll film from a canister
> to a developing tank, because no matter how it was explained, or how much to
> paid attention, it wasn't going to work ontil someone showed you in the dark.
>
> We learn a lot in the dark.  some of us create the dark so that we can learn.
>
> Is any of this making sense to anyone but me?

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