[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship. design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.
Specialization is for insects.

Lazarus Long

[proxy_user]

'A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship. design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.

Shhh! Don't give the federal education bureaucrats any more ideas for the high school curriculum.

[HereInTheHeartland]

"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship. design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly."

Someone's been watching me for a week again? Well not the last part.

[Young Scholar]

Adam Smith would strongly disagree.

[Old Student]

"...Specialization is for insects."

I've posted that entire quotation in several of my classrooms. I love it!

[Robert A Cook PE]

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship. design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.
Specialization is for insects.

Well, I ain't died gallantly (yet.)

Haven't butchered a hog - though I did see one castrated. that close enough?
Guess I still hafta learn that one.

[ArrogantBustard]

A human being should be able to yaddayaddayadda ....

Lazarus Long was a fictional character in the writings of one Robert Heinlein. I've often wondered how many of those things RAH could do, and of those that he could do, how many he could do well. Unfortunately, I only talked to him once and didn't think to ask ...

[KayEyeDoubleDee]

Specialization is for insects.

Jose Ortega y Gasset concurs, see chapter 12 of Revolt of the Masses, "The Barbarism of 'Specialization'"