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Polymath
noun One with many skills or fields of knowledge; a renaissance man

"She was a POLYMATH; everything interested Sally and she studied in depth. Sally did not drink or smoke; her one weakness was big, thick textbooks."
― Robert Anson Heinlein, To Sail Beyond the Sunset

“The greatest thing about our times is that you don't need permission to express yourself the way you wish. Sometimes people tell themselves they can't do it, because they're missing this or that, but historically, specialization is a recent convention. Most of us are born natural POLYMATH.”
― Nuno Roque

“Russell commented that the development of such gifted individuals (referring to POLYMATHS) required a childhood period in which there was little or no pressure for conformity, a time in which the child could develop and pursue his or her own interests no matter how unusual or bizarre.”
― Carl Sagan, Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence

"That famous POLYMATH Samuel Johnson maintained that no man in his right mind ever read a book through from beginning to end."— Daniel Bellm The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976)

If you need safe spaces against politically incorrect trigger words, you're probably an Adult Child from Kindergarten College.

This must stop. Forcing parents to overprotect their kids actually is dangerous for those children, keeping them from learning to look out for themselves later, when the risks are greater.

Child Services to Mom Who Who Let Kid Play Outside: This is Not Allowed She let her child play on a park bench visible from her front porch, and was warned not to let it happen again.

This is yet a blatant violation of The 1st Amendment...and worse, this so-called school forced the kids to write an essay on why civil disobedience is a crime.

Hopefully, some of them will write about why civil disobedience is one of the most important tools for Nullification of unjust "laws".

Students Plan Dress Code Protest, Principle Charges TERRORISM A group of Georgia middle school students decided they had enough of the school dress code and would violate it together in an act of civil disobedience. The school, Cowan Road Middle, found out about the plan and suspended the students for…terrorism.

Teenager's Pro-Capitalism Book Hudson steps out of the classroom to give a no-nonsense lesson on making it in America in Our Best Tomorrow: Students Teaching Capitalism to America, a new release from 2013 Independent Publisher of the Year, Headline Books, Inc.

American Indian Model Schools, a charter school system taking HALF as much money as the public schools they replace, yet getting better results, had its funding cut by the Oakland school board, citing technicalities about how the owner ran it, not any problem with the results, which are the top in the entire country.

Instead of dealing directly with the accused administrators, they are trying to shut down the entire school system, which will net themselves $20,000,000 (where the charter school was only using half that amount).

Because the schools are run so efficiently, they actually have enough money in the bank that they've remained open, without the government funding...but that can only work so long.

This is the website to help them stay open. They ask you to contact the Alameda board of education, which they're appealing to, and they give the email addresses.

Save American Indian Model Schools Here’s how you can help save the #1 Public High School and some of the top K-12 Public Schools in America:

Class Ordered to Write "I am Willing to Give Up My Constitutional Rights" A public school teacher told her kids to write "I Am Willing to Give Up Some of My Constitutional Rights…to Be Safer"

Kids' suspensions renew debate over zero tolerance Waiting in line for the bus, a Pennsylvania kindergartener tells her pals she's going to shoot them with a Hello Kitty toy that makes soap bubbles. In Maryland, two 6-year-old boys pretend their fingers are guns during a playground game of cops and robbers. In Massachusetts, a 5-year-old boy attendi...

Free Range Kids » The Most Important Free-Range Kids Post So Far Fighting the belief that our children are in constant danger from creeps, kidnapping, germs, grades, flashers, frustration, baby snatchers, bugs, bullies, men, sleepovers, Ivy League rejection letters and/or the perils of a non-organic grape.

This is happening all over...school choice is finally progressing, as a result of the TEA Party movement.

Expansion of state's school-voucher system takes effect today Expansion of state's school-voucher system takes effect today, One out of every five Arizona students in public schools becomes eligible today to apply for public money to attend private schools this fall under an expansion of a controversial voucher-type program.

SELF-CONFIDENCE is an earned belief in one's abilities and self.

SELF-RESPECT is a set of worthwhile standards by which one can earn that self-confidence.

SELF-ESTEEM is an unconditional, ergo meaningless, pop psychology substitute for self-respect and self-confidence, taught in useless public schools.

Self-Confidence vs. Self-Esteem Self-esteem is a misnomer. Self-esteem is what you develop if you have people telling you you're wonderful, smart, good-looking, etc. And that's not a bad thing, but it's a poor substitute for real self-confidence. The big difference is that it takes a lot less to destroy self-esteem than it does se...