Education

There are a lot of subjects we are short changing our children on:

• Marksmanship
• Singing
• Dancing
• Butchering animals for meat
• Mechanics of household repairs

If people were familiar with guns, they wouldn't be so terrified of them. Likewise if they are introduced at an early age to the fundamentals of food preparation, they wouldn't be as likely to develop squeamishness later on.

Somehow ordinary singing has been eclipsed by "professional" singing. You get people disparaging any singing besides the perfect voice of an opera singer, which is ridiculous, and even worse, people listen to them. All you critics can just shut up. If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all.. Dancing would probably be best done segregated by sex, at least in the older grades. Trying to teach adolescents how to be ladies and gentlemen is a losing proposition.

Everyone should learn how to use a screwdriver, hammer, wrench and pliers. But maybe I'm reaching too far.