Oddbean new post about login | logout Lots of posts about founding fathers being young and comparing them to 20-35 year olds today. Understand most of these guys had private tutors most of their lives, and didn't go to government propaganda school. What they learned was far more difficult and required far more diligence and accuracy. It was only a few that became the founding fathers. They really don't train kids like this anymore.
The Boston Founders went to Boston Latin until 16 and then enrolled at Harvard having mastered three languages, studied the classics, and knowing more about history and political philosophy than 99% of college grads today. It really isn't about where you learned but how seriously your parents took education.
So true. Education was not a power granted to any branch of the government by the US Constitution for a reason. We are all witnesses to why it was done this way. Our forefathers had the luxury of knowing the problems an out of control government does to it's people. #ConventionsOfStates is our only peaceful way to reign in the US government.
Boys were expected to act like men from a young age. I found it amazing when I was reading about President Jefferson creating the first US Navy to battle the Barbary Pirates. One of the ship captains of one of the only 4 ships in the entire navy was 18 years old. He had been working on a ship since he was 6 years old. Kids today are coddled and have limited skills and little work ethic when they become "adults". Parents and the government are not doing kids any favors when they prevent the kids from working, from having responsibilities, and from having any consequences to their actions.
The we’re the bold and the brave. Rebels and rogues, cut from a very different sort of cloth.