{"id":3292,"date":"2004-07-21T23:53:15","date_gmt":"2004-07-21T23:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/wp\/?p=3292"},"modified":"2004-07-21T23:53:15","modified_gmt":"2004-07-21T23:53:15","slug":"of-pens-and-pencils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=3292","title":{"rendered":"Of Pens and Pencils"},"content":{"rendered":"

Steven Yates, a philosopher with the Ludwig Von Mises Institute, wrote an amusing op-ed<\/a> about the overall inanity of g-schools. He cites the following example from his own 1960\u2019s childhood:<\/p>\n

Some of what went on in government schools was bizarre even then. I had been writing with a ballpoint pen at home since age five. Teachers didn\u2019t want us kids using ballpoint pens. I suppose it wasn\u2019t in their one-size-fits-all educratic manuals telling them what little kids should know how to do. So we used pencils. Or at least, I did when I was there. When I went home, I pulled out my ballpoint pen. I recall the day my fourth grade teacher introduced the class to ballpoint pens. She made a Hollywood production out of it. For the life of me I couldn\u2019t figure out why. They were ballpoint pens, not magic wands.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I recall that I also wasn\u2019t allowed to use a pen regularly until the fourth grade, and I attended a private school for \u201cgifted\u201d children. Which means the g-school kids in my area were probably pen-deprived till at least junior high.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Steven Yates, a philosopher with the Ludwig Von Mises Institute, wrote an amusing op-ed about the overall inanity of g-schools. He cites the following example from his own 1960\u2019s childhood: Some of what went on in government schools was bizarre even then. I had been writing with a ballpoint pen at home since age five. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3292"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}