Ripencil
Listen to those that have the fruit from the tree.
Wednesday, June 11, 2025
Social Media Feeds Our Desires But Is Ultimately Empty
Wednesday, June 4, 2025
Repeating Lies To Control A Nation
-Carl Sagan
A lie repeated over time becomes believable because we are creatures that finds comfort within our habits or what is known to us.
Wednesday, May 28, 2025
School is for Reading and Inspiration
"There is nothing which an better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness."-George Washington (Address to Congress, January 8, 1790)
“In a world in transition, students and teachers both need to teach themselves one essential skill—learning how to learn.”-Carl Sagan
Wednesday, May 21, 2025
Self-Education and Choosing Political Leaders
- An analysis by a renowned psychologist to determine what are the ulterior motives (if any) of the individual..
- A security clearance...
- A physical evaluation to determine if the individual is fit to lead...
- Drug test...
- test test test...
Wednesday, May 14, 2025
Creating our Ideology
"Mere education, however, is not enough. The important thing is the kind of education. We often hear that "education is power", but we need to remember that it may be power for life and human welfare or power for death and destruction. We can teach people to be selfish and narrow, or we can give them an education which broadens their outlook and makes them cooperative members of a world society."
-P. 212 of "Living Issues in Philosophy" book by Harold H. Titus and Marilyn S. Smith
As a kid going through school we don't really think about what sort of education we're getting. Are we directly, or indirectly, programmed to hate specific groups? Are we being influenced beyond words and numbers? Are we getting a good education?
Everyone has an ideology, including teachers, that they either consciously or unconsciously push unto others. Our responsibility is to create an ideology of our own based on experiences and what we teach ourselves.
While it's great that we live in a country where education is free, the responsibility to learn falls on us. We are responsible to take in what make sense and cut out what doesn't in order to live the sort of life that we want to live.
What is offered, for free, is essentially the basic. If everyone knows what you know then you're not standing out above the crowd. What you learn is important.