Today’s American public and private schools and colleges have watered-down and stretched-out general education far beyond what is necessary for the average citizen to be employable upon graduation for various reasons, including obtaining funding from the federal government, babysitting children for working parents, employing and funding union pension plans for teachers and administrators, maintaining and upgrading the facilities, and basically indoctrinating new generations i

My Dad died when I was ten years old.  You might find it strange that it’s part of how I define myself.  But it shaped who I am in many ways. He was born on the Navajo Nation in Oklahoma, but he was raised in Texas.  He enlisted in the U.S. Navy when he was only seventeen years old and during his twenty year career he was stationed in California, Japan, Hawaii and Illinois.  He retired from the Navy at thirty-seven years old and got a job as an electrician.  About six months