As a parent this resonates with me about the individuality of childrens teaching. I believe the public school system does a poor job of shoehorning each individual into the broad rote method of teaching thus leading to poor performance. I do not believe more money will solve this problem but rather more parental involvement. Albert Einstein fought against the teaching methods when he was young (15-16 I think) and thus did not become an electrical engineer. I had several unsavory instances with my own children in public school with one involving my son being left behind on an out of state field trip in which the teacher failed to take a head count when a rain outburst cut the trip short and she rounded up what kids were nearby.
Great list! I am BLESSED beyond measure to have had a Grandpa that WORKED all during the Great Depression - doing ANYTHING that would bring in a buck to support himself, Grandma, my Dad and his Father-in-Law. That work ethic is with me, still, and I will ALWAYS have multiple streams of income. :)
Secondly, I am blessed to have a Dad who taught me early-on to SAVE, and showed me how the Commodities Market works. Well, it USED to, anyways, LOL!
Allowance money went to buying Cocoa Futures and Sow Bellies, versus make-up and teen heart-throb magazines. (Though, I did not lack for those things, either.)
I’m getting there! Lost a LOT of $ in my dee-vorce, but I am back on track and should have the farm paid off and have enough stashed to live comfortably without outside employment before I’m age 60. Suh-Weeeeet!
Plan the work, then work the plan!
I found this interesting
Retail investors are more influential than most people think
Jun 14th 2014 | From the print edition
“FOLKS are dumb where I come from,” wrote Irving Berlin in the musical “Annie Get Your Gun”. The song’s condescension towards yokels is reminiscent of professional investors’ disdain for their retail counterparts. The “smart money” in New York and London thinks it can make a living exploiting the “dumb money” of people who live in the sticks. Yet a new paper from researchers at the Federal Reserve shows that retail investors—in America, at any rate—are a lot smarter than the professionals imagine. In fact, they have a bigger effect on the markets than the highly paid investment strategists of Wall Street.
http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21604190-retail-investors-are-more-influential-most-people-think-wisdom