Women should not be poo-poo’d desiring a good education just because they do their family and this country a great service by staying home with children. Wise women raise wise members of the next generation.
“Wise women raise wise members of the next generation.”
And in the case of my family, the woman is the primary teacher of the children (Daddy handles the math, though), so yes, the value of education itself isn’t the question here.
She didn’t poo-poo the idea that her niece not get a good education. She was stating the her niece could get a good education to be a teacher at a fraction of the price she was paying to attend the private school.
I didn’t mean to imply that it was only an economic decision, but I agree with the article, a lot of people feel pressured into going to college thinking that is the only way they will be successful. They may not knowing what they want to do, don’t enjoy the challenging courses, and end up with a degree they can’t do much with. And worse, then they have slopped up all the liberal garbage most universities feed them. That is obviously not what happened to you. It’s clear you thrived on the academic challenges, and as a Freeper, you resisted the dark side. And as a side note, I applaud your decision to be home with your kids.