re: #52 freetoken

Thanks for the encouragement…

My gut is not very trustworthy, I’m afraid I’ve discovered over these past several decades.

Oh, tactically my instincts are pretty good. Strategically though… I’ve realized (again, what great writers have put down before me…) that I can’t escape my own character - my own personality. While that sounds like something that ought to be obvious, to discover it through life seems to give it more weight.

As for teaching… one thing I thought about doing is some volunteer tutoring locally. There are several programs in the San Diego area that advertise needing such. I thought about doing math - since that is something most people avoid. Then I checked out the requirements… what a mess. It’s like the bureaucratic rot that infests most of “education” has seeped into the volunteer organizations.

Much of the bureaucracy in education is intended to keep adults from damaging valuable, vulnerable children. A volunteer’s way around that is to teach non-valuable adults. A whole lot of people in jails can’t read. Just breaking that wall makes tremendous difference. Expect to fail 19 times out of 20, though. (Daughter teaches in a youth prison. She is absolutely the last chance for some of them.)