But away, the silly chanting in the OWS meetings is a humane loudspeaker. The idea is to have everybody in the crowd to be able to hear what the speakers is saying. <div>I was turned off by it when I heard it on youtube the first time but now it seems an interesting idea.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/11/19 Kevin G Haskell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kgh1kgh2@gmail.com">kgh1kgh2@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 22:20:33 -0700<br>
From: Kelly Anderson <<a href="mailto:kellycoinguy@gmail.com" target="_blank">kellycoinguy@gmail.com</a>><div class="im"><br>
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Subject: Re: [ExI] OWS Rolling in the Mud<br>
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Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1</div><div class="im"><br><br>2011/11/13 Kevin G Haskell <<a href="mailto:kgh1kgh2@gmail.com" target="_blank">kgh1kgh2@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
> Giovanni Santostasi's first reply to Kevin G Haskell, and Kevin's response:<br>
> There would be a lot more types of people like Steve Jobs if people were<br>
> properly educated in our public schools on how to start and effectively run<br></div>
> businesses.? They don't, so most creative people feel confined to practicing<div class="im"><br>
> within the career they were were trained within, and not taking those skills<br>
> to a higher level to expanding it.<br>
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>>On December 1st, I am going to a fifth grade all day exercise where<br>
they set up little mini businesses, and try to make a microcosm of<br>
capitalism for the day. I will be sure and report back how well they<br>
are educating the fifth graders. Interestingly, my son is a special<br>
needs student, and he is still invited as long as I escort him. That's<br>
pretty cool from my point of view.<br>
<br>
So, perhaps this sort of education is not entirely dead... just "mostly dead"...<br>
<br>
-Kelly<<<br><br></div>Good start, Kelly. In middle school, We had fake money and budgets. I remember doing that for one week. I ended up running out of money, and had no idea why. Had the training gone on for the entire year, or years, every student who graduated high school would have been extremely well versed on how to manage their own fiances and credit, probably obtained a good idea about how Capitalist macroeconomics work, and the ability to run a business if they so chose, as well. If you can get around your school dictators, perhaps you could repeat that form of teaching throughout the year whenever you can. <br>
<br>As for now, good for you, and good luck, as well.<br><font color="#888888"><br>Kevin<br><br>
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