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I am not quoting you.
It should be your advice to people, because its true.
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To other people... I tell them to work smart actually... There is a big difference between working "Hard" and working 'Smart">>> One uses everything you have from the neck down and is worth whatever minimum wage pays. The other uses what you have from your neck up and the sky is the limit! Of course that has to do with education... BUT >>it has a LOT more to do with attitude than it does with memorization of facts and figures.
A person that is very well education with a terrible attitude isn't worth squat... They are a drag on production and efficiency.
On the other hand you have a person that is not AS educated but has a GREAT attitude.... that is a person who will be an asset... they can be trained and will keep a good atmosphere around others and increase production and efficiency.
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This is where I believe you are wrong.
Working hard and valuing education are both learned behaviors. Its not innate human nature. It is a learned behavior you get from your environment.
I am suggesting, some poor, not all, are NOT being taught this behavior.
And guess what?
I taught in the poorest school in Texas, I assure you that some are not.
Then I step in and say "work hard, go to school" Explain exactly why, showed them graphs, and stats, and income levels and all the evidence in the world as to why its true.
Then it becomes me versus their entire social world.
Guess who wins sometimes?
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I agree with you that it is not being taught to some kids...
I thought you were talking about me... what "My" advise was to "My" kids was... That is why I said what I did... After you have taught kids what you are suggesting... you should have to do it again.. that is primarily my point... To me it is the same as teaching children to walk... after they learn to walk >>> they are then expected to walk.
After you teach a child to talk... they are expected to talk.
After you teach a child that they need to get educated and work hard... Again... that it then the expectation....
To do otherwise has consiquences and the child need to know what those are as well. So I agree that showing kids what can be expected of them if they don't value their education and if they don't learn to work hard is the right thing to do.
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My mentioning FAIR tax was to illustrate, that we all have social influences. Some times we listen to sound advice (Go to school, FAIR tax has flaws)
And sometimes we dont - (drop out of school, be a Boortz ditto head)
We all do it. (Some more than others, see the "idiot test" thread.)
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It doesn't help your argument to combine (fact with opinion) when you are trying to make a point unless your goal is to be abrasive and put the other person on the defensive.
I will get back to the other thread when I make time for it... I am not going to fire back out of emotion or irritation. Also... I am not going to let this thread evolve into another topic.
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But did you find the flaw in his logic on the one point I disagreed with?
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I actually found a couple of flaws in the article... But the overall point is why I posted it.