Last Blog

Approaching the 4th anniversary of Uncommon Sense, I am aware of the uncommon paucity of visits to my site. I have preached in the wilderness like a tree falling without being heard.
Yet America is still in need of a positive, conservative and moral education. Education means a process of training and knowledge by disciplining and cultivating the mind (and other faculties). It derives from the Latin to "lead or draw out" from ignorance.

Ignorance in America today, according to Rush Limbaugh is our "most expensive commodity." "The mind is not a vessel that needs filling but wood that needs igniting," said Plutarch. "Genius without education is like silver in the mine," observed Benjamin Franklin. B.F. Skinner cannot be outdone when he says, "Education survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten." "Learning is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust...never fear...and never dream of regretting," according to T.H. White. "That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you‘ve understood all your life but in a new way," observes Doris Lessing. Even Pete Seeger got it when he said, "Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don’t." Again, "The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows," according the Sydney J. Harris, a journalist. A basketball coach and commentat understands the practical part of education (common sense) when he says, "I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six moths as a bartender and six moths as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated."

Well, liberals, elitists, socialists and snobs will never be educated, never stoop to ‘live’ in the common world of bartender or cabdriver. As George Orwell reminds us, liberals choose not to seek the truth. Not just liberals, but too many other Americans wallow in their spoiled lives and ignorance. Obtaining an education by a progressive discovery of one’s own ignorance is hard work and time consuming in a society that won’t put in the effort. Even though minds have limitless - yes limitless - capacities because they are immaterial, they continue to be wasted.

My final word in my final blog is that "all education is self-education." All the money and certified teachers poured into schooling will not remedy the knowledge shortfall in unready students.

Since attention has not been justified and no rich supporter has volunteered to fund my Presidential campaign ( remember I’m not going to sacrifice whatever I have managed to save over my lifetime), I say farewell.

I thank you my few faithful readers which my beloved and smarter half says have remained fairly constant over the last 4 years. I hope we have educated each other.

Go Sarah! You’ll never be a conservative equal to me, but America will take whatever leader she can get to save her from present sorrow and lead her into a brighter future.