The journalists always get away with it

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“There is no true moral responsibility for distortion or disproportion. What sort of responsibility does a journalist or a newspaper have to the readership or to history? If they have misled public opinion by inaccurate information or wrong conclusions, even if they have contributed to mistakes on a state level, do we know of any case of open regret voiced by the same journalist or the same newspaper? No; this would damage sales. A nation may be the worse for such a mistake, but the journalist always gets away with it. It is most likely that he will start writing the exact opposite to his previous statements with renewed aplomb.”

Alexander Solzhenitzsyn
Address at Harvard Commencement, 1978
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Reading, Writing and … all that number stuff

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What is the purpose of a school?

Is it to babysit our children so we can do other things?

Is it to indoctrinate our children to believe the latest politically correct “idea” so they don’t find themselves cancelled?

Or, is it to teach them to read and write and do math … and think?

What is the purpose of a school?

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We do not choose our ancestors

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“… we enter life with a heritage that reaches back through the ages. But we do not choose our ancestors. When we come into the world the gate of gifts is closed behind us. We can do nothing about it. So far as each individual is concerned all he can do is to take the abilities he has and make the most of them. His power over the past is gone. His power over the future depends on what he does with himself in the present. If he wishes to live and progress he must work.”

Calving Coolidge
The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge, 1929. p. 37

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Self-evident Truths

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“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

The Declaration of Independence
July 4, 1776

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Hard Work

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“Surprisingly few men are lacking in capacity, but they fail because they are lacking in application. Either they never learn how to work, or, having leared, they are too indolent to apply themselves with the seriousness and the attention that is necessary to solve important problems.

“Any reward that is worth having only comes to the industrious. The success which is made in any walk of life is measured almost exactly by the amount of hard work that is put into it.”

Calving Coolidge The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge, 1929. p. 171

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