Sometimes I get too mad to post. I got to thinking rather angrily about the people who couldn't answer a simple question, didn't know anything, or attacked me for daring to ask a question. The one I found especially offensive was the indignant-cum-sneering post "What do you want them to read, vampire stories?" which only a puffed up, pompous fool could have said. I guess that's the explanation, that she was a fool.

The problem is our education system that doesn't teach our children to think. Everywhere, teachers who take education seriously complain that the students in lower grades aren't asked to write much, or are not asked to write at all, and get passed on to the next grade incapable of forming a coherent sentence.

If you look at the English texts from the elementary grades, you'll see that the exercises assigned to the children involve expressing their emotions. I remember one teacher complaining that her high school students couldn't write. "They can talk about their emotions all day, but they can't express a position and support it." Yes, gushing your emotions all over the page is a fine skill to have, but it's not the best one and I don't even think it's the most important one.

Clear thinking, that's what I want to see in our high school graduates, far more than the ability to emote.