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Absolutely on target. I am dreading its full adoption by the dhimmi-for-brains libtard NYC education system. I consider it to be merely a means of eventually having control of the nation through the minds of its children. Any time you have a monolithic way of considering things, you’re in trouble. The renown creativity and Yankee ingenuity which grew this nation to greatness will be stifled. We will become a nation of borgs.

This change, this metanoia of the national conscience, has already occurred, my FRiend. Taking root gradually, it has already strangled innovation. We're worried about who is doing what, who's paying attention to me, tweeting and liking our way to that evasive sense of self-worth and fulfillment. When you ride the subway, what are half the people doing?

We have to be the change we seek. We cannot simply wait for help that may never arrive. We are the help.

Innovate... Challenge the system, the status quo. Recall that Langley bore the full blessing and imprimatur of the establishment yet it was a couple of status-quo challengers, Orville and Wilbur Wright who made human flight happen. They had no free rides, no college education, no wind at their backs. They just did it.

True, it's tougher to be a Wright brother or a Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, or even Steve Jobs than in their day owing to increasing dependency (which in turn can be traced to the overall intellectual malaise that is the fallout of the very technology that intellectual genius developed). But we must be that inspiration.

Don't put hopes in "education", either - at least as traditionally understood. A college education today, esp. in this age of ridiculouly widespread dissemination of information, fails the ROI test. Nope, we need real learning, real innovation, and real can do'edness. With respect to that establishment, we need to be the woman in that 1984 Apple Super Bowl ad, today more than ever.

Those prolific one-room schoolhouses were the home-school of yesteryear and look at what they produced just as the home schooled of today! Did any of you see that family on Fox and Friends last week that had 10 or 12 children all home schooled and the 17 year old was going for his Masters degree in college! All of the others were light-years ahead of where a “grade school” education would have put them at their ages. We must, must! do away with public education!