Friday, May 11, 2012

My Manifesto


The merits of an education are not the regurgitation of facts or the size of vocabulary but the hunger for knowledge.  Through understanding problems are fixed and arguments prevented.  Through knowledge are mistakes avoided and life appreciated.  Through education prosperity rains.  Through ignorance subjugation is enforced.  Through complacency disease festers.  Through stupidity are lies praised.  
These melodies are rampant and each one of us must act to stop the plague from coming upon us.  Seek out new and seek out news.  Find information and tell everyone about it.  Listen to others but do not correct them.  Speak truths and share in information gathering.  Spend time observing without interacting.  And teach without recognition.  Tell stories and jokes and hear them as well.  When finding inaccuracies politely correct.  If a lie is stubborn do not confront it simply speak the truth ells where.  At no point is it good to be short tempered.  Spend time sitting and thanking is silence.  Take the time to thank others.  Thank others for wronging you.  Thank others for likening you.  Thank others for being with you.  There is always another way, but not always a better way.  If help is asked for give it unquestioningly.  If help is needed give it unasked.  If help is provided ask how to assist.  Doubt is a virtue.  If questions of validity are answered growth can accelerate.  Teachers should be thanked, praised, prayed for, welcomed, criticized, and paid well.  Celebrate understanding community.  If two people who disagree are both right separate them and put them in the others place.  Gather.  Record.  Contribute.  

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