It seems the answer is US – the Pelicans who know how to DO.
We are the teachers and examples.
We are the fixers who know how to do.
When I had my Porsche business, we were doers. We engineered things. We built things. We fixed things. We got things done.
After I retired, I took up volunteer teaching and raising kids, we were doers. We engineered things. We built things. We fixed things. We got things done.
My kids know carpentry, plumbing, electrical, auto mechanics and (consequently) far more than their college degrees.
…and it has paid off in their lives.
I am very proud of my students (9th grade Science Research at undergraduate level); one, for example, used toilet paper tubes as airflow straighteners and is now a principal in a very innovative company. The list goes on.
My current ‘mission’ is a 7-YO I’m tutoring (for free) who is ‘smart as a tack’.
Another few years and he will be challenging me (although this may be due to the progression of senility on my part).
I want to see his PhD and life-changing inventions.
The challenge will be getting him there in spite of all the (electronic, social, cultural and other) distractions.
Yesterday’s microbiology, I found a few packages of sealed petri dishes. Rather than opening the new packages, he suggested using reusable glass salad plates. There is hope.
So … where do we go?
TEACH.
Last month there was a
SA article of the social effects of grandparents starting late in human evolution.
Perhaps we have lost some of this with grandparents (even parents) more concerned with their golf scores (lap times) than their grandkids’ (even children’s) complete and continuing forever education.
Best,
Grady