US Congress rules that pizza is a vegetable

[Jexy]

mrstickball said:

Nothing is preventing you from learning about cooking outside of school. If you are expecting your school to teach you everything you need to know in life, then you will be sorely dissapointed.

You live check to check because you don't invest in the right things at the right time, and instead pay that $5 out each day vs. investing in something $100. Your in debt because you bought something that you couldn't buy in cash. By the time I was 21, I saved up enough money to buy a house and an apartment complex to rent out to tenants. I did this, because I chose not to buy a car, or other things I didn't feel were critical. They've come back to help me significantly. People are too stupid to know where to be taught because they are undisciplined. People would rather spend time on Facebook posting banal status updates than go to Khan Academy, learn to cook, or learn something from Wikipedia. Its all in your choices. People are free to choose stupid things and get stupid prizes. I chose not to. Everyone has that choice.

You do realize I'm speaking for others, not myself, right?

And how do people learn to invest?  You realize most inner city schools don't even know what the word means?  You talk like this is common sense, but you learned it from somewhere, whether your parents taught it to you just by being responsible people, or they gave you access to the internet early on, or you had the free time to think of these things and didn't have to take care of your siblings, etc... whatever it is, you learned it somewhere.

How's some kid going to even know to look for the Khan Academy?  How does he know to do something that he didn't know existed?  This stuff is common sense to us, but not to them.  It has to be taught somehow, but there are already enough screwed up generations to expect it to be taught by their parents.  You think they'll learn this stuff if all their parents have on TV are MTV and Jerry Springer?  Or would they have a better chance if it were fox business and the discovery channel?

Dumb people raise dumb kids and dumb people have more kids than smart people.  It's a bad cycle, and they clearly aren't educating themselves, since it's just getting worse... so instead of just calling them idiots, they need to be taught.