My friend Gil Guillory told me this:
The best advice I ever got was from my father: people judge your intelligence by your ability to follow instructions.
I love that!
My friend Gil Guillory told me this:
The best advice I ever got was from my father: people judge your intelligence by your ability to follow instructions.
I love that!
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Stephan Kinsella is a libertarian writer and patent attorney in Houston, Texas. He has published widely on various areas of libertarian legal theory and on legal topics such as intellectual property law and international law. His publications include Legal Foundations of a Free Society (Papinian Press, 2023), Against Intellectual Property (Mises Institute, 2008), and International Investment, Political Risk, and Dispute Resolution: A Practitioner’s Guide (Oxford, 2020).
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As a teacher of adolescents for 22 years in Houston,TX I totally agree with this advice. I get huge resistance to directives stated in plain English. The consequence of such is very low grades. Students, parents, and yes…even principals, insist that I change my standards to meet the inability of my learners to meet deadlines, ‘complete the job’, follow rules, take responsibility for their own unsatisfactory performance and worst of all to maintain minimum civil (I’m not asking for polite!) behavior. A small percentage of my students (I’d estimate somewhere between 20 and 30%) have caught on to the idea that they are being prepared to go into the job market with some discipline with which to excel. I am somewhat pleased to learn that a few of my students have done just that, after becoming aware of the realities (unfortunately, later in the real world after bumping heads and stubbing toes) and have the courage to come back and tell me I was right. Thanks, I love this post, Dan