Comments by "LRRPFco52" (@LRRPFco52) on "Thoughty2" channel.

  1. There was no justifiable reason to institute Prussian model schooling in the US, as we already had the highest literacy rates in the colonies before the Revolution due to the library system started by Benjamin Franklin and the Junta. Schools are for behavioral and thought conditioning with repetitive motions you submit to. You will learn more in a day sometimes than an entire school year when studying independently. Best thing to do is find something you really enjoy or love, then dive into it, learn everything there is to know about it, approaching it from multiple angles. Example: I really loved airplanes as a kid. I got every book, checked out everything in the library I could or read them in the library, studied the history of their development, studied cockpit diagrams, attended every air show possible, and interviewed all my neighbors that were test pilots for the Air Force. My dad worked on them for the USAF as well, so I was surrounded by aviation. Along the way, I started to quickly learn about the physics and math involved with aspects of aviation, materials strengths and limitations, effects of thermal shifts on metals and composites, structural challenges for aircraft design, integration of various systems, and a whole range of industries that go into making aircraft. My personal studies into these matters far exceeded anything I ever wasted my time with in school. School was a distraction from me studying my passion, and rarely intersected with it.
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  2. Paul TheSkeptic: Our kids do science studies all the time here at home, as well as with local groups that encourage a lot of field trips led by the mothers. My girls have nature journals that involve a lot of observation, with references of the different species that my wife sourced for them. At ages 6 and 4, they are already more well-versed on local animal and plant species than I ever was. They also do dance, music, and any subject they are interested in. I wish I could have had an education like this when I was a kid, but both my parents were away working to pay for mortgages and car loans, so I was dropped off at babysitters or daycare, then went to school to not learn anything all day, more daycare, then picked up around 6:00p.m., usually the last ones to be picked up. I did a lot of studying on my own because I had so many interests, despite the distraction that school was, and I accredit those personal studies with all the success I've had as an adult. I can't think of anything in school that really helped out a lot, other than maybe some basic grammar and writing lessons in grade school. I would have been much better off on my own, with periodic instruction from tutors.
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  3. Reinhard Heydrich: I think that was a factor, but now that Finland has allowed in over one hundred thousand immigrants who actually reproduce, they are seeing measurable declines in academic performance. Finnish is an extremely difficult language to learn once you're over the ages of 7-10, and Finns are a very quiet people due to the unique geography and climate. Again, comparing a nation with 5.4 million people to the United States' 327 million, or even Germany with 82.7 million is not really a scientific or meaningful comparison.
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  4. Teachers get paid unusually well, at least in the US. That doesn't stop them from complaining and following along with their union reps demanding more pay. My mom was a district rep in the 2nd largest teacher's union in the US. Teachers don't see the big picture of how school came into existence in the US, who pushed it, or why. The ones who really want to make a change for the better are working from within a system that was specifically and carefully designed to suppress, not encourage learning.
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  5. Can't fix what is meant to break you...I refuse to participate as much as possible, which currently means I get robbed for thousands of dollars a year in property taxes, while spending what we have left at home for our children on our own hybrid model.
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  6. ​ @Conserpov  My friend who took me into Russia wrote a book about Russian & Soviet casualties of the Winter War. Most Russians don't even know about the Winter War, never heard of it. I have one of Simo Häyhä's spent cases on a plaque that was found at one of his firing positions from the Battle of Kollaa. While it's true most nations create a hero figure for their people to rally around, the Finns are very quiet, and put their effort into accomplishing tasks without fanfare, especially in the military.
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  7. ​ @Conserpov  Uh, the Battle of Kollaa involved thousands of casualties on the 56th Red Army Division and 1st Rifle Corps. The Red Army meat waves were like shooting fish in a barrel in many instances, because of how Häyhä was offset from the main Company line of his unit. I have personal friends who literally went with Simo to the area where he showed them exactly where he was during parts of the Battle of Kollaa, and even found one of his fighting positions. They found many spent cases of 7.62x53R, with 1937 case head stamps on them. I have one mounted on a plaque explaining all this. Your claims have zero merit to them historically, and your numbers are simply embarrassingly-false.
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  8. "Middle class" in Finland would be "poverty" in America, not that we really have poverty in America. Countries that have true poverty have orphanages, lack of clean water, sewage, dentistry, homes built to code, environmental management of infrastructure, continuity of stable of government, etc. I've lived in Finland many times, my mom is from there, and while it is one of the better places in the world to live, trying to compare it to the US amounts to comparing a homogenous Nordic 5.5 million population that lives above 60˚ N latitude in a lake-saturated forrest, to a population of 327 million very diverse people who live in a temperate zone, filled with the most vast connection of rivers, farmland, and deep sea ports on earth. Finland compares with maybe one of the States in the Great Lakes region. Any comparisons beyond that are built on a lot of false premises and extrapolated data that just don't fit well at all. They do have a better approach to being relaxed with the earlier years of childhood and schooling, but schooling isn't necessary.
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