"Worthwhile endeavor". Agreed.

"I prefer to be around people with at least a basic education" We all do! It's having to pay for that basic education with a gun to our temples that is galling..

Technically, I think you'd have to accuse me of being a communist for my counter-accusation to stick. As you indicated, however, you said I sounded a wee bit socialist.

I withdraw my accusation.

I prefer to be around people with at least a basic education.

In general, I find that the dialog is more stimulating, the potential for self improvement is greater, and communication is easier.

If he wants to spend his money on
others education, it is no problem. It
is maddening, when he wants to
spend my money!

You find it in your rational self interest to pay for others' education? Why? I've asked this 3 times now.

On point 2: Whether I pay a good teacher... Whether I pay for structures, books, supplies, etc. Whether I pay for transportation. -or- Whether I spend time educating my neighbor's child, or a friend's child in a topic the neighbor or friend is not familiar with. It is my choice to do these things as it is my choice to live in my county. I am free to move to a different county with lower property taxes and poor public schools. I will be free to move to a county where alternative means of education are implemented and no portion of my property tax goes to education, in which case, I would not cease to value education any more than I would cease to be delighted to see educated children and young adults out and about.

On point 1: Yes, most of us do in some form or other. I find it to be in my rational self interest for the time being.

On point 3: There's no need to throw the book at me. What are you trying to say, exactly?

Thank you.

Here! Here! But please throw in the NEA which is behind Common Core nationally and internationally through UNESCO

It is evil because the Govt controls the curriculum, even for schools that are privately funded. It uses the curriculum to brainwash everyone into thinking in leftist-green mode, not only culturally, but also economically (as if Keynesian macro-economics is a valid science). Only a few escape the brainwashing.

Well said, Shrug. My daughter (a senior this year) doesn't buy into the tripe they hand out in school. She doesn't do drugs (hates them and what they do to her classmates), believes in chastity (in fact, doesn't really care about dating), and to a surprising degree, is thrifty. It's what happens when parents are engaged in their children's lives.

Happiness is living according to one's
hierarchy of values

I think everyone was too preoccupied with Little Mermaid's clamshells

Hmmm interesting. Did I miss the uproar when this movie came out? It is clearly racist.

Hey...either you read my mind or you're a copycat.

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not exactly....there is a little plantation talk though...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPQVrjnC1...

You may turn blue.

it's harder to live than to read, but these are the 4 sentences I pick. I'll have to practice the third one without taking a breath

Are there a lot of sea creatures singing about friendship?

Yes! 10 points for you :) (In 'one' increments of course.)

you'd like "the Little mermaid."
she had to learn to walk on her own two feet.
bahahaha

1. you pay for education. Others' education. 2. It does not affect MY happiness if I contribute to a socialist state. Please qualify your second sentence. 3."happiness is a feeling just as gratitude is a feeling"

"Happiness is not to be achieved at the command of emotional whims. Happiness is not the satisfaction of whatever irrational wishes you might blindly attempt to indulge. Happiness is a state of non-contradictory joy—a joy without penalty or guilt, a joy that does not clash with any of your values and does not work for your own destruction, not the joy of escaping from your mind, but of using your mind’s fullest power, not the joy of faking reality, but of achieving values that are real, not the joy of a drunkard, but of a producer. Happiness is possible only to a rational man, the man who desires nothing but rational goals, seeks nothing but rational values and finds his joy in nothing but rational actions." Galt's Speech

oh heck no...who wants to teach their kids scary stories with a life lesson of consequences inside? When happily ever after is to much niiiiicer? I hate princesses. It's such a good thing I didn't have girls.

If you don't see the contradiction I'm not pointing it out again. (Although the first two sentences are glaring with contradiction..you're happy to sanction what you're not happy with...????) You sound conditioned... I'm not asking my question a third time. And you said "feeling" without a "oh whoa whoa whoa whoa"..I should take a point.