As opposed to know-it-all brats who ought to listen and learn from their elders? Those of us who are “elderly kooky types” know what our country used to be, and we want it back! Our country is being lost because people are content with their own little status quo world and refuse to see the bigger picture - that we have been the proverbial frog in the slowly boiling pot.
And, by the way, no one really cares how many degrees a person has, either. All they are is an indication that one can complete a task. It is no indication that knowledge was actually acquired.
I always wonder why those who don’t like it here on FR don’t just leave.
I love FR.
So many people people take themselves soooo seriously, and get upset when someone says something they don’t agree with.
Fortunately, rational discourse peeks around the corner occasionally and says “Hi!”
1835-1910 – Samuel “Mark Twain” Clemens
“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
1874–1965 - Winston Churchill
“If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty you have no brain.”
“Schools have not necessarily much to do with education... they are mainly institutions of control, where basic habits must be inculcated in the young. Education is quite different and has little place in school.”