I wonder if.............................................

Moody Blues.............................................Your Wildest Dreams

Congratulations Ray.............................

The Not-So-Simple Village Undertaker has been counting up the days, and they total five years.  Not only am I a regular reader but I'm also proud to call him a friend.  Well done, Ray!

Taking a radical step......................

Seventy years ago.............................

Perry Como...............................................Till The End Of Time

Good question..............................

Where would we learn stuff if it wasn't for school...

Fifty years ago.......................................

The Beatles.....................................Hide Your Love Away

Us humans are a stubborn sort....................

"You can’t just lecture people and expect them to change their behavior."

Plus, expecting others to conform to our wishes is not a recommended path to peace, love, and happiness.   Full post (about financial literacy) whence the quote was taken, is here.

Sixty years ago..................................

Roger Williams..........................................Autumn Leaves

Not trying to be judgmental, mind you,..........

...............................................but isn't this a tad bit absurd?

courtesy of 

Still has it.............................................

Trending 81, Frankie Valli is still a presence.

This human experience........................

......................................................................can be difficult.

"We're all just monkeys with smartphones."

Source, and context, is here.

Imagi-nation....................................

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Irresistibly..................................

"The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth."

-Frederick Law Olmsted

Fifty years ago................................

Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons.......................Let's Hang On

Never out of style..................................

Dismantled..........................................

"Forts, arsenals, garrisons, armies, navies, are means of security and defence, which were invented in half-civilized times and in feudal or despotic countries; but schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications, and if they are dismantled and dilapidated, ignorance and vice will pour in their legions through every breach."
-Horace Mann (1841)

A reflex....................................................

"The Washington Reflex:  you discover a problem, throw money at it and hope somehow that it will go away."
-Kenneth Keating

17 Things....................................

...........................I wish they taught in college.  Full list is here.  Two of the seventeen here:

A survey of biases: Students read an old State of the Union address given by a president they disagree with, but told the speech came from a president they admire. After the student glows about how wise the speech is, the true speaker is revealed and the student instantly finds parts of the speech they dislike.

Sometimes life isn't fair 101: Twenty percent of the class's homework is randomly deleted. The other 80% get scholarships for no obvious reason.

I actually had the good fortune to have several professors who taught some of these subjects, even though they called them something else.  As they say at Faber College, Knowledge Is Good.

thanks craig

I'll drink to that...................................