Joyanna Adams

The Montessori Method with Elon and Tom

Nobody Knows

I went to the college I used to go to today. It’s been over 40 years since I was there. It was a very cold day, and I looked like some kind of Russian with my big black hat and long fur coat. And to say it was surreal is an understatement.

 It was strange. I went there to get an opinion on an old $10,000-year-old carving done in a rock that my great grandfather found on his farm on the banks of the Mississippi. I’d put a picture up, but right now, my photos don’t work.

The campus had grown from what I remembered. It was HUGE. At least 20 more buildings had been added but, nobody was around. I only saw a few students and the ones I did see, ALL looked depressed.

As if they were sure they had no future no matter what. Most of them were sitting in the hallways on their cellphones.

I went into one library and it was magnificent. But–The staff was taking an hour’s lunch. They looked the typical liberal types, no makeup on the woman, and the men looked like mama’s boys never threw a football. There was about ten of them sitting at the table, taking their time because NOBODY was in that library. Why they needed all those people, making big bucks I have no idea. And I went into my entertainment mode and demanded they pay attention to me. (LOL) I was sent from building to building looking for the head of the history department. I keep thinking, “Boy, these people have it MADE.” Never have to work a day in their lives. They sit, they talk…they eat. And go home.

I finally found the Head of the History Department. She said she had never seen anything like the object that I had brought. But she said, there were very few people in the area that knew much about the natives here in Missouri. At least not the ones over 10,000-year-old relics. She took some pictures and said she’d get back to me.

And still, I thought, everything was just too damn depressing. All those buildings. And the students looking so lost, so depressed, so forlorn.

As we walked out, she said she had a class to teach. She taught Early American history and WOMEN’s studies. I certainly wasn’t about to get into a conversation about that. I would tell her what I really thought of Gloria Steinem. I’m sure I knew more than she did about both. I thanked her for her time, and watched her walk away, wondering whatever happened to the JOY of education? What happened? When I first walked this campus years ago, I was so THANKFUL, I was so full of excitement, hope, dreams of learning everything I could get my hands on…talking to different views.

But I do remember, even back then, the blacks always stood away from the whites. For no reason whatsoever. THEY didn’t like white kids. We were not to be talked to. That at least is changing. My black postman and I are pretty good buds. I can tell he likes me too. So, that’s a good sign. The blacks are starting to finally talk to the white people in their neighborhoods.

Nevertheless, the dream I had about college left pretty quick. I found the teachers, even back then, to be bigots and idiots. I only had one that I admired. My history professor. He said Queen Elizabeth was a whore. LOL. I was the only one in his class that read ALL his suggested readings, over 20 books. In fact, his assistant said I had read more books than most professors. And speaking of that, the libraries were the best. Just walking through them was pure torture. I wanted to spend the day, gorging on Titles and things never known.

Of course, now, the world has changed, and the internet is your teacher. Except the internet controls what you read, and all those books? That knowledge someday will be lost forever.

FOREVER.

As I was leaving, I tried to imagine the sheer waste of money on this universities. They are like old Roman relics. They might as well put the illegals in them, that’s how useless all those classrooms were.

And the teachers are WAY over paid. And protected. Never fired. Tenure.

Will that lady contact me? Maybe. But to tell you the truth, I don’t want to go back there, unless I can sneak into the library and just have fun.

By the way, Elon Musk has put $100 million dollars into a new school in Texas. The children learn at their own pace, and choose what their proclivities lead them too, and when they leave the schools, they will be the ones leading the way in just about everything because learning is for life. He is planting the seeds.

And creations are in the imaginations, which all these idiot teachers stomp out.

Edison said long ago, that our schools were worthless. He said this, “I like the Montessori method. It teaches through play. It makes learning a pleasure. It follows the natural instincts of the human being”

He also said, “I firmly believe that the moving picture is destined to bear an important part in the education of the future. Suppose instead that we show to the child the stages of that process of nature…the cocoon itself, the picture of the cocoon unfolding, the butterfly actually emerging.”

Was he right or was he right? Genuis. And Elon Musk is a genius for taking up where Edison left off…making the children use their brains.

“Edison said, “The more he works his arm the bigger the muscles: the more the faculties are exercised in a normal way the greater the brain. The folds of the brain grow deeper through observation, they grow fallow from disuse.”

And now, Elon Musk is using that big brain and doing something about our horrible educational system.

Thank God somebody is. And by the way, it’s online for kids, and it’s free.

January 17, 2024 Posted by Joyanna Adams | Uncategorized | Leave a comment