Duke of Edinburgh criticises young primary pupils' handwriting on visit to East End school

He may be retiring from public life but Prince Philip has shown he has no intention of holding back on his trademark honesty in the meantime. During a visit to a primary school in east London the Duke of Edinburgh left one teacher feeling a little flustered as he criticised the state of pupils' handwriting. He and the Queen were at Upper North Street School, in Poplar, to mark 100 years since innocent children were killed when a WWI bomb hit the site.

I worked around 25 years ago with a really pretty 18 year old who loved to do posters, poems etc. I would marvel at how beautiful her handwriting was.

Around a year ago, I wondered what ever happened to her and did a Google search. Now a married mother but she also has time to have a calligraphy business. I looked at some of her samples and she has a flair in addition to the regular calligraphy skill.

It amazes me that people can do that.

I was in high school in the 60’s. Back then the only two languages they offered were Latin and French. I took French, just one year of it, but I can still recall many of the phrases, and words. My oldest son (aged 50) speaks and reads German fluently. He also studied Russian, and picks up languages pretty easy. He didn’t get it from me. Usually before he goes overseas, he tries to familiarize and refresh himself with words and phrases for the places he’ll be visiting.

Some people are just born with it; and so far, there is no explaining that.

One of my friends from High School was the most amazing artist, and had NO formal training. It always seemed like a supernatural thing to me, that she could draw a portrait of someone, off the cuff, which actually looked like the person!

But I think that anyone can learn anything, if they really want to. Learning something is just a matter of having an intense interest, desire - Love!

In the early ‘sixties, French was still considered the international language, and the ‘Language of Diplomacy’. It was the only language offered in my elementary school, and they put us into classes by about the third grade.

My father, who had been with the INS, working the Texas border after WWII, got it into his head that Spanish was the language I should learn. He believed that Mexico and South America would become geopolitically and financially important - (I don’t think he was prescient enough to realize that I’d wind up living in the ‘barrio’ here in Maryland ;-)

So, I took Spanish throughout Jr. High and High School. I’m grateful for the little French I’ve got, but the Spanish has been much more useful. (I can tell the guys at the ethnic store on the other side of the woods that I want my meat ground, or my fish filleted ;-)

I think that the facility for learning any language stems initially from a love of language Itself.

I would like very much to learn Latin. But, Hey: retirement is on the horizon :-)

There better be a revival for the Original Documents of this country will not be able to be read by this dumbed-downed generation, so that the Marxists can literally change the words in the Declaration when they put it in their Marxist revisionist textbooks for Common Core, etc. (which they will). They already have been caught rewriting the 1st and 2nd Amendments in textbooks. Google it—and get your children OUT of Common Core Communism. It will destroy their ability to use reason and logic (on purpose).

I have found Classic books that were CHANGED——including The Princess and the Goblin. There was NO indication of abridgment or adaptation. Why? Because the original has much more complex concepts about Good and Evil and given directly by the author who happened to a be a Christian pastor and knew the purpose of literature for children is instilling wisdom and virtue. The Marxists have to erase all Christian references in all literature so they can flip the worldview in children to satanism (vice for slavery) for the NWO of dumb mindless non-thinkers.

Control of Words and Language is Mind Control. (Wittgenstein). When the Marxists CAN’T change words in books, they change the MEANING of the words to be the opposite of what they used to mean. Now the rainbow, instead of being a sign of a covenant with God, represents sodomy and other demonic, vile behaviors so they can be normalized in your children like in the muslim boy harem countries.

Same with the world “Marriage”. Tell me how two males sodomizing each other can consummate a marriage or make a “family”? Now you have lust and dysfunction and satanism described as “love” and babies to be bought and sold and denied their biological parent (pure Marxism).

The Marxists have removed Objective Truth and Right Reason from Just Law (it is impossible). All to flip 2000 years of ethics back to paganism and Ba’al worship where sodomizing babies and drinking their blood is part of their rituals and normalized again “in the children” who are told to take Pride in anal sex and masturbation by 3rd grade at the latest.

Have always struggled with my handwriting one of only 2 ‘D’s in my life through grad school (Wint talk ‘black magic’ here). Worked hard in 6th grade to get the coveted free quill pen, then I quickly fell back into poor patterns of haste. Have had some tell me my writing is beautiful, but I know compared to others it’s a scrawl. When I’m in a hurry these days it an odd combination of cursive and print...someday I’m sure someone will look at my journals and wonder what language it was in.... which makes me wonder about those older docs....

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