“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
Mark Twain

"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand."
Ancient Chinese Proverb

“Well done is better than well said”
Benjamin Franklin

"An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.”
Norman Podhoretz

“Built on the factory model, mass education taught basic reading, writing, and arithmetic, a bit of history and other subjects. This was (is) the “overt curriculum.” But beneath it lay an invisible or “covert curriculum” that was far more basic. It consisted (and still does today) in most industrious nations – of three courses: one in punctuality, one in obedience, and one in rote, repetitive work. Factory labor demanded workers who showed up on time, especially assembly-line hands. It demanded workers who would take orders from management hierarchy without questioning."
Alvin Toffler

“If this is a firm and the Board of Regents are the board of directors, and if President Kerr in fact is the manager, then I’ll tell you something: The faculty are a bunch of employees, and we’re the raw material! But we’re a bunch of raw material[s] that don’t mean to have any process upon us, don’t mean to be made into any product, don’t mean to end up being bought by some clients of the university, be they government, be they industry, be they organized labor, be they anyone! We’re human beings!”
Mario Savio, University of Berkeley, December 2, 1964

“When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.”
P. Snow

“There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.”
Anatole Broyard

“A person who is trained to consider his actions, to undertake them deliberately, is in so far forth disciplined. Add to this ability a power to endure in an intelligently chosen course in the face of distraction, confusion, and difficulty, and you have the essence of discipline.”
John Dewey, Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education, "New York: The Free Press", 1916

“I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.
Kahlil Gibran

“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
Robert Frost

“Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.”
Norman Douglas

“To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it requires brains.”
Mary Pettibone Poole

"An expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less, until eventually he knows everything about nothing."
Anonymous 

“Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.” (WTF?)
Gail Godwin

“I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.”
John W. Gardner

“Junk is the ultimate merchandise. The junk merchant does not sell his product to the consumer; he sells the consumer to the product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise; he degrades and simplifies the client.”
William S. Burroughs

"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."
Will Durant

“We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.”
Peter Drucker

“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
Alvin Toffler

Outdated Chinese proverb
“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day, teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime...”

….unless the fish run out or the man is forced inland where he has to be re-taught how to hunt, fight terrorism, battle a war on drugs, help protect the environment, be retrained in a new job every few years, take classes on how to communicate with a computer while simultaneously deciphering an internet of information… then you have to teach the perpetual student over and over again!

New & Improved American Proverb
Don’t give or teach the man a damn thing unless he works hard & learns how to learn. If the man is too stupid to LEARN how to fish with a little help from his friends... let ‘em starve... or dump him in the forest so he can LEARN to eat fruit by picking it from a tree…A nation cannot afford to hold up freedom trying to teach a dumbass how to fish or pick an apple...let that lazy bastard ask not what his country can do for him, ask him what the hell can you do for your country?  If a lazy dumbass can’t learn how to feed himself, do we seriously think a nation owes him a free freedom lunch? WTF?

Our education systems are a broken record of, "Listen, Study, Parrot, Test". The sideline slogan of "the more you know" needs to add "the less you do".

“Cease fire, friendlies, I am Skip f**kin Work, damn it!”

Ghosts of American Leadership Past
(This is not a tweet...this is not a tweet...man your battle stations)

"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it."

Dwight D. Eisenhower

“The one being abhorrent to the powers above the earth and under them is the hyphenated American—the “German-American,” the “Irish-American," or the "Native-American." Be Americans, pure and simple! If you don't act on the theory that every man who in good faith assumes the duties and responsibilities of an American citizen in a spirit of true Americanism is an American, and is to be treated as such, ...you are yourselves unfit to take part in managing our government and you are bound to make a failure if you try to better the condition of our cities.”

Theodore Roosevelt, September 10, 1895

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.

 The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood…..who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself at a worthy cause; who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and…..if he fails, at least fails daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”

Theodore Roosevelt, "Man in the Arena" Speech given April 23, 1910

"Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country."

John F. Kennedy

“If I were to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for other business. I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep doing it until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won’t amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, then angels swearing I was right would make no difference.”

Abraham Lincoln

“Now, I say to you today my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed:

'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.”

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Speech at Civil Rights March on Washington, August 28, 1963

“...and I've looked over, and I've seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the Promised Land. So I'm happy tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man.”

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Speech in Memphis, April 3, 1968, the day before King was assassinated

“There is nothing to fear but fear itself."

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

Outside Observations of the Impact of Leadership 

"The ultimate leader is one who is willing to develop people to the point that they eventually surpass him or her in knowledge and ability."

Fred A. Manske, Jr.

"The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on."

Walter Lippmann

The leadership examples above compared to the safety & security of our unsinkable systems of management

“To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.”

Elbert Hubbard

“When anyone asks me how I can best describe my experience in nearly forty years at sea, I merely say, uneventful. Of course there have been winter gales, and storms and fog and the like. But in all my experience, I have never been in any accident... or any sort worth speaking about. I have seen but one vessel in distress in all my years at sea. I never saw a wreck and never have been wrecked nor was I ever in any predicament that threatened to end in disaster of any sort.”

1. Smith, 1907, Captain, RMS Titanic

“If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.”

Peter Ustinov

Figures of speech that you get from a dumbass pioneer who knows the difference between victory & defeat (they are both intense hot & chilly sensations) who thinks he can "Make America Happy Again"

“A jack of all trades, master of none, is often times better than a master of one” (somebody smart said this) 

Especially when the master of one, is one jack off, often times better as a master of none. (some smartass said this)

Me So Happy Skip "Skippity-do-da-day" Work...instead of talk less-smile more to see which way the wind blows...think less, do more...and be a happiness whore

 

The creator of this website was falsely accused of having Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in high school.  While our Renegade Pioneer did in fact wear a "Medicate Me" T-Shirt to school everyday. He was a dumbass but he was also a smartass who refused to partake in drugs that would make him want to sit in a classroom all day and follow the orders of the powers-to-be that wanted him to "Listen, Study, Parrot, Test" over and over... wasting his valuable time having fun outside of school. Understanding this system had nothing to do with LEARNING... he refused to be an obedient servant to the system and when he was brought up on charges had this to say to the Royal Kingdom... 

Your honor Mr. Principal & members of the Bored of Education...I plead NOT GUILTY to all these factory modeled disciplinary charges and you can kiss my ass.

He could be heard screaming as he was dragged back into high school detention for the last time, "No!...You're out of order!...No...You're out of order!!!" The evidence showed that our renegade dumbass walked out in the middle of Mrs. Ruler's class the day before and skipped school (skip work) all day. The story goes he never said a word to anyone why he walked out in the middle of class, why he did it or where he had to go. The illustrious education system is under tight control so no student is officially classified as a having ADHD & heavily medicated until the Bored can PROVE their case. In every case they are not interested what any student has to say if they break the RULERS.

When the Principal demanded to know why "Skippity-do-da all day long" had got up and walked out of Mrs. Ruler's class the day before without saying a word and never returned to school grounds...he put his sunglasses on before the Bored members...since he is not a man of few words...he popped in his favorite 8 track cassette into his trusty boom box...cranked this song to full volume and started rocking out of the classroom on the road to pioneer learning where he knew he was better off if he learned how to teach himself...

I was getting kinda tired
Of her endless chatter
Nothing I could say
Ever seemed to matter
So I took a little drive
Just to clear my head
I saw a flashing neon up ahead
It looked like a place
To find some satisfaction
With a little less talk
And a lot more action

I paid the man at the door
And pushed my way to the bar
Shouted for a drink
Over a screaming guitar
A drunk on a stool
Tried to mess with my head
But I didn't even listen
To a word he said
I knew somewhere
Amid all this distraction
Was a little less talk
And a lot more action

A little less talk
If you please
A lot more loving
Is what I need
Let's get on down
To the main attraction
With a little less talk
And a lot more action

Well she was fighting them off
At a corner table
She had a long neck bottle
She was peeling the label
The look on her face
It was perfectly clear
She said somebody please
Get me out of here
The look she shot me
Through the glass refraction
Said a little less talk
And a lot more action

A little less talk
If you please
A lot more loving
Is what I need
Let's get on down
To the main attraction
With a little less talk
And a lot more action

He was kicked out of a schooling that he refused to let interfere with his education. Never again did his "a lot less talk and a lot more action" training ever let him down. All thanks to Toby Keith for bailing him out of a jam! You da man Toby! Our dumbass couldn't have made high school history without you brother!

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What the buck is this crazy jarhead talking about? First he is telling us we are at war with grief. Then he is attacking our standardized brilliant PhD scientists who are our educational Gods of wisdom. Next, he calls our beloved crowning standardized education system a complete and utter failure. He thinks our standardized management principals refers to the joker on the sidelines, chief person or king and that they are responsible for the current out of control chaos...whereas his management principles refer to a basic law or concept that none of these educated superstars have the cajones to be a pioneer or leader. He says the highly educated are trying to manage a leadership nation into extinction. He shines a light on the glamorous movie, TV, sports stars we watch, envy & follow and tells us to follow our dreams instead of watching others achieve their wildest dreams. He insults our rich business "greed is good" Kings & Queens of the royal kingdoms of Facebook, Walmart, Microsoft, Starbucks & Amazon and tells us they are all bankrupt of courage, possessed by greed. He thinks the nation should be taxing these sideline cowards and make them support our wounded warriors (military & first responders) as payback for the freedom they have never invested in. We wants us to stop buying their trash. He wants us to quit funding "greed is good" celebrities' selling their fame & fortune and start buying into leadership and freedom instead.

He crossed the line of not following unlawful orders of either of our Party Politician's we elect because we have no choice but to buy into the best MANAGERS money can buy. What the f**k does do our sacred institutions, all our sacred institutions we worship for 30 pieces of freedom silver have to do with going to war against grief helping to "Make America Happy Again"? It is not our countries fault our brightest minds were manufactured into managers and sideline Teddy Bears without cajones. That isn't why we are losing our freedom...is it? He sees why we can't see a nations lack of leadership is the cause and effect of all of this grief. Is it? What the f**k is going on? Everything I worship is being attacked and defeat. What the hell are we going to do when "our world is turned upside down" and we are all free to do what we want, like that amazing and talented Puerto Rican American dude with that funky name, E. Manuel Miranda. This Alexander Hamilton want-a-be came into our homes and sang to us for free, all about freedom on Independence day. This dumbass was selling tickets on Broadway for $1,500 a seat prior to Covid-19 and he turned his world upside down and gave it away for free. Senor Miranda is our kind of free dumb Pioneer! He did not throw away his shot!

How can this website tell us our education system is to blame for our lack of leadership? It cannot be our fault because management refuses to take any of the blame. That is how we manage to get by Damn it! A freakin' dumbass jarhead is telling the nation (for free so we can get free dumb) that the primary source of all our grief is our education system? Did a small time Puerto Rican American trick us into watching E. Manuel Miranda in big time Hamilton so he could Mirandize us in the name of American freedom? It that what Hamilton was all about? Is this why this website is jacking us around?  Why is everything free when it comes to freedom suddenly? Where is the money in that?

Great questions yawl. It took you long enough get here. We dig burying treasure nuggets inside our "we are making this all up as we go along for the ride of our happy life" just to f**k with a nation of Management Gurus who refuse to admit they have no cajones. That does not make them bad guys...in fact it makes them...can we say it...oh forget it...we don't want to hurt their delicate feelings after showing they have no balls. I mean come on with the come on. If you reach between your legs and FEEL nothing there, you have no cajones. If you are a Cowboy or Cowgirl and you grab between your legs and it FEELs good, you're over-the-moon happy you still got a pair of knockers knocking, you got nothing to fear. This ain't rocket science.

So for all you management blue balls out there looking to find a pair, so you too can get off on leadership, listen up. We are trying our best to paint you a pretty picture of how ugly management is. We are delicately explaining how to connect the dots of multiple fronts of grief attack, troubleshooting the relationship between grief; education systems, management systems, business systems, science systems and political systems as simple as we can. So here goes everything.

Grief is invisible. We never see it coming. Grief stabs us in the back and poof, it's gone leaving us drowning in a depression. Grief is the manager of sheep to the slaughter and grief transforms humans into grief robotic cyborgs without feelings. Grief makes us dig your own grave. Interesting that grief consists of the death of a love, passion or a close encounter with pure evil with a FEELING of loss, injury, misfortune that all occur when we are bankrupt of faith. Think how much grief is caused by the loss of wanting to hold on tight to money, power, possessions and material things that have nothing to do with freedom beyond the basic necessities of life....Food, Shelter from the storm, Love, Passion, Life, Liberty & the Pursuit of Happiness.

Management is invisible. We never see them doing anything but trying to talk us out of it. In a crisis, managers stab us in the back and poof, they are gone to higher ground to save themselves leaving us drowning in depression. Managers are the manager of sheep to the slaughter and management transforms humans into grief robotic cyborgs without feelings. Managers make us dig your own grave. The only reason we allow ourselves to get mismanaged by these self-serving pigs is because we bought into the lie that money, power, possessions and material things buys us happiness. We are a once great leadership/pioneering nation... that sold its soul to sideline management... and now we cannot figure out why...we are the Rodney Dangerfield's of management systems when we say, "I get no respect!"

Science (not medical) is invisible. We never saw it coming. PhD science crown themselves the educated Gods of Wisdom, science stabbed our faith in the back, telling us our Father who nart in Heaven...  and science's evolution is a freakin' monkey with magic seeds that evolved into humans leaving us drowning a zoo cage depression they talked us into. PhD's are the scientists of the sheep to the slaughter and science transforms humans into grief robotic cyborgs without feelings. Science makes us dig your own grave in search of the DNA of their imaginary primate Father. Science is only in it for the money, power, possessions and materials things because they damn sure need it to pay off the 14.7 years of student loan debt they racked up so they could hide out in a safe library environment and answer a single question. They need retribution for all their hard work that many times, never pays off, so they put down uneducated people in order to build their own grief dividends.

Faith is invisible. Faith never leaves your side. It is right there with you day and night. Faith walks beside you through thick and thin. Faith wants you to hold on tight to Acceptance, Forgiveness, Self-Reckoning, Remorse, Compassion and LOVE and be thankful for want you got, not what you have not, not what you want to get, or what you think is owed you. You can't see it, but you believe it, and you damn sure FEEL it. Faith gives you the courage to climb out of any depression. To be recklessly free. Free & Dumb. Free dumb & Happy.

Leadership is this nation's only visible means of support. Learning the only visible meaning of figuring out what you want to do, what to need to know and figuring out the rest all by yourself. Leaders run in front of you cutting a path into the unknown, leading you through thick & thin. You can damn sure see it because it is right in front of your face. It is hard to believe because management has pulled off a leadership solar eclipse and that is why we only see darkness. The previous 4 bolded out items are all invisible. Leadership is a "holy crap" wonder of amazement you can see crystal clear. Where the f**k did this leadership Cowboy or Cowgirl come from? Most times, leaders emerge out of nowhere, riding in to save the day. They come from the most unexpected places right when all hope is lost. Leadership tells you to put your faith in God, Corps and Country. To follow them into the valley of the shadow of death without any fear of the unknown. Leaders convince volunteers (the wolves not the sheep) that there is no greater calling than the freedom of a nation. Leaders convince the strong to have faith...the weak to stay hidden...as leaders run full speed ahead into the breach and pioneers latch onto to leaders as if their lives depended on it...risking life, body & limbs...because they all have a soul that lives forever and freedom is worth fighting for. We are all dying for Freedom.

Since leadership has been wiped out, shot down, killed, covered up, facing extinction...just like in the Marine Corps when all the Officers and Senior Enlisted are dead...the next man in line must assume command even if he/she is a lowly private, the last man standing. Leadership inspires pioneers, renegades to always steps up their game and assume command. Leadership inspires a "do or die" spirit. Not command in the since of "you must follow my orders, do exactly as I say, while I hang back in the management bunker". No sir or ma’am. Screw those management cowards who die a thousand deaths a day as they send troops into battle to die a thousand deaths a day without leadership. You assume command as a Pioneer forced to pull off a leadership hat trick instead of fighting beside leadership as an action agent, pulling off a learning hat trick. It is a pioneering promotion to leadership that are both linked to learning. You tell your men & women, your band of brothers & sisters, the loves of your life..."I'm running into the unknown by myself. I don't give a damn if you follow me or not. The only thing I can tell you with 100% certainty...if you stay here...you will die a thousand deaths before you will ever be able to live again. Ohhh Rahhh!!! God, Corps, Country! Leadership is the fearless notion that if you look behind you as you run into the gates of hell...nobody will be there to back you up... it does not matter because leaders move ahead one way or another. The only sure fire bet between leadership and management? If you look around in a gunfight, it is 100% guaranteed, you will never see a manager in front of you, beside you or behind you.

There you have it. Your sacred failing education system "condensed version" that should have produced long version learners with principles, not "condensed version" principals. We are laughing our asses off knowing it might take 4-10 years for our educated managers with sacred college degrees to find this golden leadership nugget. When it comes to sideline management finks...we are proving some of these geniuses are the dumbest smart people we will ever SEE. This leaderless nation is being poorly managed by an upper class with extremely low classifications when it comes to fighting for freedom. But all is not lost. This is why we are declaring war with grief. If we can all Cowboy & Cowgirl up...education, science, managers, business and politics systems that build up walls to protect managers and leave the subjects to fend for themselves...management will simply be erased from our history books as a loss of leadership principles from 1968-2020, after Dr. Martin Luther King was assassinated. This fearless man was a leader. All we have to honestly say is, "The United States of American went on a 52 year leadership sabbatical". We thought being smart would help us "sit this one out". We tried to put all our lack of faith in Management, and we failed leadership.  We really thought if we got smarter, we might get somewhere. Who knew wanting to get smarter was the dumbest move our country ever made?

Our bad. We must get over it and start anew. A new Beginning. An Impossible Dream. We simply must follow the free dumb road map of the ABC's of Happiness. Was that a sales pitch... if we ain't selling and you ain't buying? Sounds more like free dumb to us.