A paraphrase of Jefferson's famous quote on the importance of education goes something like this: If the People are not sufficiently intelligent enough to wield Power, do not take it from them - educate them! If they are not a sufficiently safe repository of Power, the solution is not to take Power from them, but to educate them and make them so.
One's life can be dedicated to that proposition: That all men are created equal and where inequalities exist, education will make up the difference.
I eschew elitist posturings - both on the Left and on the Right. Through hard work, people can rise above the mire they've been born into, with the help of family, friends and neighbors, with limited Federalist intervention.
O, the blessings of work! And the curse of the dole - the curse of that generational Culture of Welfare.
Now, let's get to it! Go to iTunes University, to Stanford and MIT free online classes. Take advantage of online degrees. Such rigor hardens us into thoroughbreds, capable of more than those horses bred in Collectivist Colonies of Despotic Imperialism.
The talking horse in C.S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia was valient compared to those of the repressive regime he'd fled from. But when compared to the free souls of Narnia, his was merely average - his valor commonplace - for theirs rose to such extraordinary heights of courage and pitch as to embarrass him in his mediocrity.
May we rise up on wings of eagles, to run and not be weary, to walk and not faint. For He will make the Princes of the Left and the Right as dust. Let us wait patiently on Him, and He will give us our heart's desires! Come, let us reason together. Let us learn of Him, for therein is wisdom! God bless us all in this endeavor!
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