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Look At It This Way
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We make some of our greatest gains
When we see old things
In new ways
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by Dr. Steve Mason 43
Member L.A. County Bar Association ~ FINRA Arbitrator
SCHOOL DAZE
California State Bar Since 1975
When WW2 ended, millions of men gone up just as relevance had gone Celebrating Super Lawyer status for 13 years 2007 through 2019
were suddenly demobilized out of the down and that has resulted in a 25 year-
army and back into civilian life. As a old with no experience, $50K in debt
result, the labor force was suddenly and a degree in Gender Studies. Clearly,
besieged by mobs looking for work. To the idea of a good education is ready for
absorb this influx, the government revision.
came up with a plan to put former
soldiers on hold by paying them to go Look At It This Way A Sense of Purpose: Join a Service Group
to school.
Today we have an educational system If you are looking for a way to give back, support women’s issues and have an
The GI Bill seemed like a great that runs the gamut from make believe opportunity to develop worthwhile friendships, please contact us.
opportunity and indeed it was. First to world class. However, for the SOROPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL is comprised of profes-
generation college graduates were able majority, it’s nothing about which to sional women who have agreed to work together serving their
to move up the socioeconomic ladder write home...assuming you can write. community. Motto: “To improve the lives of women and girls
and become part of the American Way. Comparing the US to other countries
Interestingly enough, the public was we’re 24th in literacy putting us behind in local communities and throughout the world.” We welcome
already primed to see a good education Poland and Ireland. And this ho-hum interest from women in Norwalk, Santa Fe Springs, and La
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though it was mostly an illusion. It make somewhere between $62K in AL
came out of an earlier time when and $81K in NY for approximately 180,
Hollywood films showed Mickey 5.5 hour days. The total bill for K-12 was Check out the website at www.soropmist.org to learn more about
Rooney wearing a raccoon coat and $536 billion during 2004-05...exceeding all programs and other locations. Collaboration is fun and we have
living in a big house with his father, that for national defense. more power when we choose to work together. Think about the
the judge. In truth, such a scion would difference you can make in the world that surrounds you.
have been a success regardless of what My question: Why not drop For more information, please call 1-949-795-2776
he did or didn’t study. Pestalozzi’s pedagogy, scrap costly brick
and mortar buildings, eliminate
The fallacy is that a good education teachers and provide serious, teachable ENTERTAINMENT FOR
leads to a good job. In truth, an students with programmed study units RETIREMENT HOMES &
education teaches one how to live. It on-line? Take the educational system
does not teach one how to make a out of the welfare business. Babysitting SENIOR CENTERS
living. That’s what training does. and providing perhaps a third of total ~Michael Sherman~
Doctors and lawyers, auto mechanics nutrition for some kids may be well and ~Comedian
and computer programmers are good but it has nothing to do with
trained. Reading Beowulf has nothing education. Isn’t it time to move into the ~ Impressionist
to do with it. It’s the basis for the 21st Century? ~ Singer
joke: Four years ago I couldn’t spell
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And yet, by the second half of the to our or email 323-654-6505
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become the middle-class equivalent of Not Born Yesterday!
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