To your excellent program idea I'd add - No cell phones or electronics of
any kind - better to be alone with their thoughts to contemplate their
predicament and what is needed to rise above that lot. Or accept it and try
to find something acceptable.... ;-)
LarryT
-----Original Message-----
From: Curt Raymond
Sent: Monday, December 19, 2011 9:55 PM
To: Diesel List
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Oh Wilton
Which is the impetus for my mandatory service plan wherein all high school
graduates are given a horrible government issue job for a semester. They can
sweep up, or pump septic tanks or collect trash on the side of the road.
Just think how clean our roadsides would be, fewer people would litter if
they'd spent five months picking it up...
During this mandatory service everybody lives in govt issued dormitory
housing (think barracks) AWAY FROM HOME. Nobody is allowed to do their
service within say 500 miles of home, there is no going home on weekends.
This teaches you how to be away from home and how to live with others.
The government feeds you and clothes you, its a lot like the army, or
prison.
After your term of service you're allowed to continue with life in whatever
manner you want. Some people will have found their niche which is a valuable
service to them. Others will go on to college or trade school but they will
KNOW WHY THEY'RE THERE!
I learned this surveying for the Portland to Boston rail link back in '94. I
remember standing in Rigby rail yard in Scarborough, Maine wearing:
1 pair polypropylene long underwear top and bottom
1 pair nylon pants
1 pair jeans
1 pair wool pants
1 long sleeve tee shirt
1 short sleeve tee shirt
1 wool sweater
1 parka
1 nylon hat
1 wool hat
and no gloves because I couldn't operate the instrument with gloves on.
The wind would blow completely through my body. Even with all that kit on I
was freezing.
That was how I knew I had to go to college. Missed graduating with honors by
0.02 of a point.
-Curt
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 17:51:26 -0500
From: "WILTON" <wilt...@nc.rr.com>
To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Oh Wilton
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My greatest incentive to get an education was within me - I WANTED it; I
wish every child, every teenager could have at least a little bit of that
intense desire for an education that I had. That's what growing up on
tenant farms in eastern NC did for me. If every teenager had just a little
bit of that desire that I had, there'd be NO truancy and discipline
problems, and we would not have enough schools and teachers, but the
teachers would find it a Helluva lot easier to teach.
Mom and Dad never had much money or material things, but probably one of the
greatest things they gave me, other than life itself, was a sense of
integrity - to be able to what is right when nobody else is watching.
Wilton
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