I am optimistic about that, because nothing can stop the arrests coming. Key political leaders have started the countdown, in Ohio, Illinois, and other places. People do not know the local leaders in another state, but those leaders have great leverage on the use and abuse of taxes, the business practices, and so forth.
For this to last, we need an educational revolution, and I am quite pessimistic about that. The old teachers who could have accomplished this are gone. We have several generations of teachers (and professionals) who
- Do not read
- Have no grasp of history
- Cannot spell or write clearly,
- And are captive to trends, fads, and fanaticism.
Undergraduate students assume they can plagiarize anything and get an A, or maybe just a tap on the wrist and an A-. Do not be shocked, the Anything Goes District in WELS endorsed clergy plagiarism, following Mordor's policies and the Love Shack's. "Why re-invent the wheel?" WELS has a fortune cookie answer for everything.
I do not think everyone should study Latin, but Latin/Greek should be expected of those who aspire to be leaders. We learned the basics of grammar far better than in English class and we studied the history of Rome.
"How do you expect to get into a good college without two years of Latin?" I heard that repeatedly in the Moline School System.
Digital toys are now included in the Young Dummies Bill of Rights. Tender, delicate children - so easily offended - are free to play constantly with their computers in class. Guess what? The teachers recognize this as a right and do nothing.
Digital toys put people in a haze, and they are addicting. I doubt whether more than 1% of a smart phone's capacity is used by most people. However, everything is geared toward using their apps. I tell vendors who ask if I have one, "I am too smart to be a a smart phone slave."
A member of the Military Gardening Group admitted to playing digital games 70 hours a week, even though he also worked. He came alive and started reading when he gave up slavery to the toy.
So who is going to educate the next generation in English, math, history, and science? I saw one community college give up the boring and expensive grammar textbook for an expensive network computer game for "learning" grammar.
I could tell them, based on teaching English to undergraduates in roughly 70 classes over 17 years -
"They are unteachable in grammar at this stage in life. They do not know the parts of speech. They do not know about objects of prepositions. They do not know that a pronoun must match the antecedent in number. They do not want to know and do not have the language skills to write complete sentences, in many cases. Copy and paste - they know that."
