A TALE OF 4 GENERATIONS!

My father quit McGill University in his second year in Montreal because "They were not teaching me anything that I wanted to know or could use."

I hardly ever attended either Grammar or High School because of multiple reasons:

  1. I was bored to tears.
  2. I thought that most of the teachers catered to the dumbest in the class and that kept me bored.
  3. I was convinced that the teachers did not know too much themselves.
  4. If the teachers got a question they could not answer they ignored the question.
  5. There never was any in-depth analysis.
  6. Homework lacked imagination and if you stepped off the reservation you were, by definition, wrong!
  7. Class after class was a bore and humdrum. Not one subject was interesting enough to keep me occupied. At the ripe old age of 16 I knew more about biology (my first love) than did the teacher! In fact I used to teach the classes whenever live specimens were needed!

The truant officer and my mother got to know each other quite well and I made a deal with my mother that I would go to school whenever she asked me to in order to get the truant officer off her back.

My children revolted against education in the United States and so we educated them in Europe!

My Grandson last year quit one of the most prestigious Prepatory schools in the U.S. (Hotchkiss) because:

"They were not interested in education but just being able to get you into an ivy league school. It was a social life school and not a serious one.The teachers were terrible except for the history teacher and he was not that fabulous.

"BESIDES WHICH,THE TWO MAIN ACTIVITIES OF THE STUDENTS WERE SEX AND DRUGS. I AM NOT INTO EITHER ONE AND WAS THEREFORE PRETTY MUCH ISOLATED."

My father ended up co-inventing the window air conditioning unit.

I went on to get 5 degrees at the University level as well as a Fulbright scholarship to France as well as other honors (see "BIO").

My children have done fabulously in life, my son has his own business and my daughter manages the family assets.

My Grandson graduated from Eton College in the UK and is now at Stanford University.

The moral of these tales of 4 generations?

AMERICAN EDUCATION IN GENERAL, AT THE PREP AND HIGH SCHOOL LEVEL, STINKS!