[marktwain]

We should have those toys available today. They taught kids responsibility.

The really irresponsible ones were the insane legislators that have given us the nanny state.

Down with the nanny state! Bring back freedom. Eliminate stupid national “safety” standards!

I wandered alone in near wilderness with a rifle and a dog when I was 12. I spent more time in a canoe and on snowshoes growing up than I did on a bicycle. I started reloading ammunition at 13 and worked in the woods peeling pulp wood logs by hand when I was 14.

We have created a world where we dare not give children responsibility, then expect them to exercise it immediately and fully when they turn 18.

It is an insane expectation.

[Roccus]

We should have those toys available today.

Late to the party, but I wonder how many of the people involved in our space programs started with A. C. Gilbert sets.

Things Of Science was another great introduction. Though on a much less grandiose scale, they reached many.