Putting God back into schools.

[Ninurta]

So, as stupid as this is going to sound, have you ever seen Ender's Game? Ling story short, I 100,000% agree with the statement above. Basic education needs to be cemented and taught. Short of my upcoming novel that talks deeply about Generational Memories, we need to put the same basics into all kids. If parents want to introduce God, or the lack therof, then so be it. 

Anywho, my Enders Game comment is basically that we will some day have true specialty schools for kids to be born and raised into a space travel faction. A farming faction. A services faction. Etc etc. Mind you, that's a horrifying prospect that we've seen time and time again in movies, but there are kids that walk this earth who are destined to spend their last breath on Mars. Why the BS to conform to what our fucked up society says they should think about? 




ETA The problem is that throughout history we've been unable to control our instincts and make this concept not scary and utopian...

Yeah, I've seen it, but it's been a while and I'm a mite fuzzy on it - weren't those kids genetically engineered to have a predisposition to their future vocation, and then educated with a concentration focusing on their predispositions?

Orson Scott Card lived in Greensboro, NC when I did. He used to write a column for a local Free Press newspaper called the "Rhinoceros Times" as "Uncle Orson".

I also saw "Total Recall", so the notion that "there are kids that walk this earth who are destined to spend their last breath on Mars" scares the crap out of me - that last breath is a doozy on Mars! I don't understand why anyone would want to go there, as inhospitable as it is. They are sure to have to live in a government and/or corporately micro-managed city under a dome, or under ground, or die. I don't understand the mindset that would permit a person to do that, but then again, lots of them flock to the same basic environment in cities now, so there will be no shortage of volunteers, I imagine.

I guess it takes all kinds!

Conformity is the in thing these days - people from every direction are trying to tug on kids to conform to their brand of conformity. Religion is a very small subset of all the different agendas out there demanding conformity.

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