[davep]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', 'T')ime for my periodic posting here.

We humans are all parasites on Mother Earth. We have our shiny metal teeth locked onto her petroleum teat and are sucking out the last life juices from her saggy graying anticlines.

I'll bet none are in primary industries. Anyone in manufacturing or agriculture? Do you actually build or grow anything? Any miners, steelworkers, ship's captains? Everyone here who believes they are capitalist, progressive, humanist, cynic, wise man, realist, conservative, or democrats blah blah blah is actually, in real life, just a telephone-talker or at best, a paper (or retail/financial stock) pusher.

Any Mexican farm workers in the audience? Thought not

[ReverseEngineer]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', 'T')ime for my periodic posting here.

We humans are all parasites on Mother Earth. We have our shiny metal teeth locked onto her petroleum teat and are sucking out the last life juices from her saggy graying anticlines.

I'll bet none are in primary industries. Anyone in manufacturing or agriculture? Do you actually build or grow anything? Any miners, steelworkers, ship's captains? Everyone here who believes they are capitalist, progressive, humanist, cynic, wise man, realist, conservative, or democrats blah blah blah is actually, in real life, just a telephone-talker or at best, a paper (or retail/financial stock) pusher.

Any Mexican farm workers in the audience? Thought not

[ReverseEngineer]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', '
')
If they teach conformity to the industrial paradigm, specialization and segmentation, value commitification, and suburban ghetto-ization they are parasites. If they teach dependence and belonging, rote memorization, and encourage competitiveness at the expense of creativity, sharing, loving, earth-centered spirituality, they are parasites. If they are not me they are parasites. Yikes. There. Got that off my chest. Can I leave now?

[Ludi]

What is "excellence"? How do you teach it?

[Bas]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', 'W')hat is "excellence"? How do you teach it?

[Pretorian]

What if they teach somekinda useless discipline, which won't be used by 95-99% of their pupils ever in their lifetime? Like Math.

[Pretorian]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pretorian', 'W')hat if they teach somekinda useless discipline, which won't be used by 95-99% of their pupils ever in their lifetime? Like Math.

[ReverseEngineer]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Shannymara', ' ') "Master" is just a standard rank for ppl who have more than 5K posts. It's just that most of them have "Expert" ranks, or some staff rank, or whatever. I'm an outlier, as usual.

[ReverseEngineer]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Bas', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', 'W')hat is "excellence"? How do you teach it?

[davep]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ReverseEngineer', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Bas', 'e')xcellence is being very good at one particular thing which usually came through intense and long training which in turn makes you 'specialized' and being specialized means you're part of the big human machine in which everybody functions as a specialized too all too often without seeing the big picture of what this machine does to nature and our planet.

[ReverseEngineer]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('davep', '
')I'm not so sure about that. I see the key as being interested in many things and never assuming you know everything, i.e being humble (a bugbear of míne with the absolutists on here). The problem with specialising first is that you tend to see things in terms of your domain. Being a jack of all trades with a tendency to dig deep when required seems a better approach to me.

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ReverseEngineer', 'I')'d agree with that definition also, its not all that different, just a different spin.

[ReverseEngineer]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', 'H')ow do you teach your kids humility, RE? By example?