Academic Lore

Monday 23 January 2012 - Filed under Uncategorized

If there is one idea that the leftists in the western educational sphere have perpetuated which is not only false, but downright fucking annoying, is the idea that the only way of being educated, or that the only education worth receiving, is the one given during the daytime, by teachers, in a classroom.

Dutch teenager Laura Dekker finished her solo sailing journey around the world in good spirits, despite endless debate about the terms under which she is allowed to be at sea.

She completed her 518-day trek today after docking her yacht Guppy in St. Maarten, ending a yearlong expedition that supposedly made her the youngest person ever to sail alone around the globe, though her trip was interrupted at several points.

Ms Dekker, 16, faced several court cases from the time she announced her intentions to travel the world at the age of 14. She said government organisations tried to deter her from her journey, and because of that, she may not return home to the Netherlands.

Dutch authorities tried to block Ms Dekker’s trip, arguing she was too young to risk her life, while school officials complained she should be in a classroom.

I suppose she did miss “Foreign Culture” month in Middle School because she was too busy traveling around the world and interacting with foreign cultures. How dare she think that life experience could teach her something that she couldn’t learn in a classroom from a book?

2012-01-23  »  madlibertarianguy