Climbing Parnassus

If you have ever even considered thumbing through it...do. It has really helped firm up a lot of the half-gelled ideas I had about education. Particularly about what is real education and what is just job training. If you've ever read something written before 1930 and thought, like I have, "Ding dang, peoples used to be smart!", this book will tell you why they were. And why they aren't now. It will explain why you say things like, "I know what I want to say but I can't figger out how to say it." It will tell you why you sometimes get the kernel of an idea you know could be brilliant only to find that you've nowhere to plant it. It will illustrate why your brain doesn't seem to be functioning at the level you know - YOU KNOW - it should.

No, it isn't CO2 poisoning.

It isn't lead in your crock pot.

It isn't DDT.

It isn't low self-esteem.

Its your terrible education brought to you by the good folks at, "This is just as good as that."

Keep the tissue box handy because this one's a tear-jerker.