Heroes, in Myth and in Reality
[This section originally appeared without an
entry in the table of contents, so one has been added.]
On the next two pages, you will find two columns labeled
"Mythical Heroes" and "Heroes in Reality." We
must apologetically state that in reading these columns over
ourselves, we realized that given what is left of us as a result of
our own educational experiences, we would have done exactly the same
things as our chosen "Mythical Heroes" did if we were
placed in the same circumstances. Conversely, we discovered that,
while we have great admiration and respect for those listed as
"Heroes in Reality," our educational experiences have
placed a glass wall between us and any of them.
Mythological Heroes
Famous High School and College Grads
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Leona Helmsley
Ferdinand Marcos
Michael Miliken
Benito Mussolini
Richard Nixon
Joseph Stalin
Spiro Agnew
Fidel Castro
Lyndon Johnson
John Mitchell
Samuel Pierce, Jr.
Gary Hart
Jim & Tammy Bakker
Manuel Noriega
Michael Deaver
Pat Robertson
Frank Lorenzo
Lyndon LaRouche, Jr.
Daniel Ortega
Joel Steinberg
Hedda Nussbaum
Imelda Marcos
John Buettner-Janusch
John Tower
Robert E. Chambers, Jr.
Muammar Qaddafi
Bess Myerson
John Zaccaro, Jr.
Kurt Waldheim
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If you have concluded that we conveniently chose these particular
people in order to make a point, you are correct. We did hand-pick
this group in order to challenge some incorrect and very solidified
ideas that people in this country have about the nature and the value
of a high school diploma or a college degree. We realize that there
are many high school and college graduates who have made a positive
impact on the world However, our research shows that these people,
because of certain unique personality characteristics and personal
gifts, have succeeded in spite of their education, not because of it.
Our research shows that the longer a person goes to school in order
to acquire diplomas and degrees, the further he or she gets from ever
fulfilling their own destiny or finding genuine personal
satisfaction. Furthermore, our research shows that the more time a
person spends in a situation such as homeschooling, the more likely
that person is to fulfill his or her personal destiny and find
genuine personal satisfaction, which is the only real success that
life has to offer.
Some people will read this and say that we are unrealistic
dreamers and that what we are advocating are situations in which all
children receive private tutoring, which is far too costly and
inconvenient to be realistic. We would say that these readers are
correct in that what we are advocating are situations in which all
children receive private tutoring, only we would not say that we are
the unrealistic dreamers. Before surgeons enter the operating room to
do surgery, they are required to wash their hands. Otherwise, their
patients may become infected with bacteria and may even die. To say
that we cannot afford to educate our children properly is the same
thing as saying that the cost of hospital soap is too high so we
cannot afford to have surgeons wash their hands. To say that to
educate children properly is too inconvenient is the same thing as
saying that if a surgeon is in too much of a hurry or would be too
inconvenienced, he or she should be exempted from washing before
surgery.
Schools as they now exist infect children with a deadly bacteria
that permanently destroys their mental systems and breaks down their
capacity for healthy emotional response. We do not think that we can
afford to cripple so many people and still expect to survive as a
race of human beings.
MYTH: If you do not get a
college degree, you will never get anywhere in life.
MYTH: If you do not get a high school diploma, you will never amount
to anything.
MYTH: If you get a high school diploma, you will be a success in
life.
MYTH: If you get a college degree, you will be a success in
life.
Heroes In Reality
Famous Homeschoolers and School Dropouts
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Lech Walesa
Guglielmo Marconi
Helen Keller
Enrico Caruso
John Stuart Mill
Booker T. Washington
Theodore Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Buddy Rich
Andrew Wyeth
Claude Monet
Woodrow Wilson
Eddie Antar
Margaret Atwood
Irving Berlin
William Blake
Pearl Buck
George Washington Carver
Agatha Christie
Winston Churchill
Henry Clay
Buffalo Bill Cody
Charles Dickens
Samuel Gompers
Maxim Gorki
William Henry Harrison
Patrick Henry
Eric Hoffa
John Huston
Joan of Are
John Paul Jones
Charles Lindbergh
Yehudi Menuhin
Sean O'Casey
Loretta Lynn
Henry M. Stanley
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More filthy, spineless, despicable, low-life,
"doomed to failure" quitters
Lucille Ball
Claire Booth Luce
Marcel Marceau
George Burns
Charles Schulz ("Peanuts" cartoonist)
Paul Hogan
Cary Grant
Herman Melville
Pablo Picasso
Aristotle Onassis
Charlie Chaplin
Noel Coward
Andrew Carnegie
Brigham Young
Wilbur & Orville Wright
Benjamin Franklin
Illustrations by S. Bowen, Blue Hill Falls, Maine
REALITY: There is no
correlation in the way that educated people think that there is a
correlation between a high school diploma or a college degree and the
outcome of a person's life. Because of the way the educational
systems advertise their wares you would think that the millions of
high school and college graduates whose lives did not turn out as
promised should be able to make a claim against the educational
institution's "Mutual of Omaha" insurance policy for their
disconnected and partially fulfilled lives.
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