OPINION:
America has just gone through a bloodless conflict between competing political forces. Thankfully, we used ballots, not bullets, avoiding World War III (“Future of school choice unclear after state ballot defeats,” Web, Nov. 8).
We “garbage” citizens — absent Ivy League degrees but with diplomas from the school of hard knocks — cast our votes. The sort of wisdom needed to survive one day at a time cannot be captured in a single course taught in K-12 schools or universities. Those of us “deplorables” who work in the private sector are the “free lunch fairy” that subsidize the political left’s diversity, equity and inclusion programs.
This garbage voter, for one, remembers reading Alexander Pope’s “A Little Learning”: “A little learning is a dangerous thing, Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring” and this Albert Einstein quote: “Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.”
In my perfect world, K-12 education would be viewed as a potential “America’s Got Talent” in which society searches for those few with a spark of STEM genius and imagination. Once discovered, these individuals would be given every assistance to pass on to humanity the precious gift that nature (or nature’s God) gave them.
JOE BOYETT
Montgomery, Alabama
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