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Reading the two posts from you two on advanced math, has made me even more positive about the discussions we had re possible home schooling for our grandkids if and when the time comes.

Get 'em started early on the math-phys, Gramps... That's all I got to say... That's where the jobs are. Too many kids these days study worthless crap and can't get meaningful jobs and are a waste of good skin IMO. I guess I have a superiority complex when it comes to academic pursuits but that's the way I see it-- I'll take an engineer, even a bio student, over a soc or psych punk anyday... And the way I hear it, ed studies are mostly dogwaste... The hard sciences remain relatively unscathed by the massive influx of intellectual sewage that's deluged the academic industry in the past 40 years, in particular... Though you do have the harpies p!ssing and moaning now and then about underrepresentation of women/minorities/transvestites/whathaveyou...

Good luck to ya. I admire folks who can take it on, like my ma... Can't see myself ever doing it but I'll stick up for the homeschoolers any day...

Get 'em started early on the math-phys, Gramps... That's all I got to say... That's where the jobs are.

I bought into this bill of goods; got a chemical engineering degree a few years ago. One of the dumber things I've done, in fact -- wish I could go back and study art or something, instead. I couldn't get an engineering job at all for a good long while, then finally I got my present job as a mindless bureaucrat.

*sigh* :(

Actually our grand daughter has been able to count accurately up to 20 since she was about 20 months old. We walk up and downstairs, holding hands, and she would count the steps up to 20. Then, she would turn around and start over. She recognizes the numbers 1 through ten on a little portable computer we gave her last Christmas. She just turned 3.

For months before her third birthday, I would ask her how old she was. She would hold up two fingers. Then I would hold up one finger and say, "If we add this one finger to your two fingers, what do we have!" She would then hold up three fingers and say three.

Since she was just a few months old, she has wanted to be read to. As soon as she could crawl, and we went to visit, she would crawl over to her library and grab several books for us to read to her.

Her 15 month old brother could care less about books or being read to. We think that he will probably be a middle linebacker and will read defenses.

Her dad, our son, refers to those worthless/dead end degrees as instant unemployment degrees. The kids get the degree and walk across the stage into instant unemployment with no training nor value to anyone who hires them.