How to Make Every Day More Interesting, More Fun, More Rewarding

[ChemEngineer]

When you keep an eye out for litter on your daily walk, sometimes you are rewarded in an unexpected way.

Last week, it was a Trader Joe's Gift Card worth $50 in the local park's parking lot. I cleaned that up as well.

 

[ChemEngineer]

“We scientists have found that doing a kindness produces the single most reliable momentary increase in well-being of any exercise we have tested.” – Martin Seligman, PhD, in his book Flourish


Do you know the etiology of diabolical, and El Diablo (the devil in Spanish)? Diabolos is Greek and it means "gossip."

Speaking ill of your friends brings no sense of well-being for them or you. Doing a kindness benefits you both.

 

[Ringtone]

Hang this then:

The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive. – Thomas Sowell

November, 2017 A YouGov survey found that more millennials would rather live in a socialist (44%) or communist (7%) country than a capitalist one (42%). America and our once cherished ideals are doomed.

“In 1950, we spent (in 1989 dollars) $1,333 per student. In 1989 we spent $4931. As John Silber, the President of Boston University, has written, ‘It is troubling that this nearly fourfold increase in real spending has brought no improvement. It is scandalous that it has not prevented substantial decline.’ ” – William J. Bennett, former Secretary of Education, in The De-Valuing of America

“Whatever else it is, higher education is not a bastion of excellence. It is shot through with waste, lax academic standards and mediocre teaching and scholarship.” – Robert J Samuelson, member of the National Association of Scholars


The sixth-grade textbooks of today are much less challenging than those of a few decades ago…” – Carl Sagan, Demon Haunted World, page 362

It has been said that we have not had the three R’s in America, we had the six R’s; remedial readin’, remedial ‘ritin’ and remedial ‘rithmetic. – Robert Maynard Hutchins (also Maynard Hutchins) (1899–1977) educational philosopher, dean of Yale Law School (1927-1929), a president of the University of Chicago (1929–1945) and its chancellor (1945–1951).​

Education is the only industry in America that has yet to face significant pressures to cost-cut. – Scott Galloway, New York University Business School, 2020

“Yet universities are becoming laughing stocks of intolerance….” - Stephen Pinker, liberal and atheist professor, Harvard University

"Public education is a socialist monopoly, a real one." - The Late Milton Friedman, Nobel Laureate and Professor at University of Illinois, which also hired convicted terrorist William Ayers as a professor

Another terrorist hired by University of California was Angela Davis
"I see racism in the sky. I see racism in the ground. I see racism in the speed of sound." - *Professor* Angela Davis

Don't forget Theodore Kaczynski, the Unabomber, a genius mathematician at Berkeley.

This brings to mind the story of the college history professor who advised the students in his class who struggled with the Founders' prose in the assigned reading to first read the New England Primer of the 17th Century. Paraphrasing: That way you'll learn to read at the elementary school level of that period, and understanding the Founders' prose should be a snap.