School's Out--Wonderful!!!
UPDATE: I forgot to list Project Gutenberg, which has over 60,000 free eBooks.
With the shutdown of the government indoctrination camps, there is a golden opportunity to provide a genuine education to students, young, old, and lifelong.
This is a perfect time for a (re)reading of Thomas Paine's “Common Sense”. Although from Paine's “Rights Of Men”, the following observations of Paine's are still highly pertinent today: "A constitution is not the act of a government, but of a people constituting a government; and government without a constitution is power without a right. All power exercised over a nation, must have some beginning. It must be either delegated, or assumed. There are not other sources. All delegated power is trust, and all assumed power is usurpation. Time does not alter the nature and quality of either."
“Common Sense”:
Declaration Of Independence. “[W]henever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it”. Hummm...
US Constitution. Which is not, contrary to the wishes of George W. Bu$h, “just a GD piece of paper”. “...the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”. And now we live in times where governments are telling us more than nine of us cannot meet at a time, and that a sneeze can get us expelled from the councils of government. Hummm again...
There aren't too many people who still believe the malarkey that Lee Harvey Oswald killed President Kennedy, but then who did? “Farewell America” by James Hepburn (pseudonym), written in 1968, is one of the very best books around, and available for free.
One of Bill Clinton's most important mentors was Professor Carroll Quigley. While IMHO Clinton did not use that knowledge for the betterment of the world, he certainly learned much. Much background/additional information can be found at one of the two main Quigley sites.
Quigley wrote several books, the most important being “Tragedy And Hope: A History Of The World In Our Time”, which can be read for free.
Good debate/critical thinking/philosophy teachers are difficult to find even in the best of times. If you have a little money to spare, I highly recommend Jon Rappoport's courses. Had they been around when I graduated high school, perhaps I would have spent the following seven years and beyond more constructively, and I certainly wouldn't have spent the second two-thirds of my life trying to overcome the first third (i.e. government indoctrination facilities).
The above list is not exhaustive or remotely close to being. Rather, it is a starting point. Not everyone prefers the written word, some are more receptive to audiobooks, lectures, videos,, and so on. There are wonderful free resources out there.Two Three of particular note:
Open Culture
Internet Archive
Project Gutenberg
TLC
With the shutdown of the government indoctrination camps, there is a golden opportunity to provide a genuine education to students, young, old, and lifelong.
This is a perfect time for a (re)reading of Thomas Paine's “Common Sense”. Although from Paine's “Rights Of Men”, the following observations of Paine's are still highly pertinent today: "A constitution is not the act of a government, but of a people constituting a government; and government without a constitution is power without a right. All power exercised over a nation, must have some beginning. It must be either delegated, or assumed. There are not other sources. All delegated power is trust, and all assumed power is usurpation. Time does not alter the nature and quality of either."
“Common Sense”:
Declaration Of Independence. “[W]henever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it”. Hummm...
US Constitution. Which is not, contrary to the wishes of George W. Bu$h, “just a GD piece of paper”. “...the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”. And now we live in times where governments are telling us more than nine of us cannot meet at a time, and that a sneeze can get us expelled from the councils of government. Hummm again...
There aren't too many people who still believe the malarkey that Lee Harvey Oswald killed President Kennedy, but then who did? “Farewell America” by James Hepburn (pseudonym), written in 1968, is one of the very best books around, and available for free.
One of Bill Clinton's most important mentors was Professor Carroll Quigley. While IMHO Clinton did not use that knowledge for the betterment of the world, he certainly learned much. Much background/additional information can be found at one of the two main Quigley sites.
Quigley wrote several books, the most important being “Tragedy And Hope: A History Of The World In Our Time”, which can be read for free.
Good debate/critical thinking/philosophy teachers are difficult to find even in the best of times. If you have a little money to spare, I highly recommend Jon Rappoport's courses. Had they been around when I graduated high school, perhaps I would have spent the following seven years and beyond more constructively, and I certainly wouldn't have spent the second two-thirds of my life trying to overcome the first third (i.e. government indoctrination facilities).
The above list is not exhaustive or remotely close to being. Rather, it is a starting point. Not everyone prefers the written word, some are more receptive to audiobooks, lectures, videos,, and so on. There are wonderful free resources out there.
Open Culture
Internet Archive
Project Gutenberg
TLC
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