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My grandfather was a master mason, senior bod in his union local when he retired. My dad -- now in his 80's -- still has his Da's tools, and until about ten years ago used them around his, and all of our properties. He taught all us in turn, but i'm a complete butcher. I can do a little...

I believe it was one of your queens -- no mean Greek and Latin scholar, either -- who said "If I were turned out of my realm in my petticoat, I would prosper anywhere in Christendom." Everyone should be taught a trade as a young 'un.

I'd like to see everyone learn a trade in school, even those who are university-bound. It's good for you, and may prove a safety net. Hands to work, and hearts to God, as the Shakers used to say.

I can read Greek and Latin, and sweat copper pipe. I have an (expired) sanitary tile layer's license. I've taught the first, and done the second and third, for a living at different times in my life. Whatever happened to the ideal of the Renaissance man?

A country where the students aren't protesting has something wrong with it. No place is perfect, and once you're on the treadmill of getting-and-gaining, especially once a family assembles itself around you, it's harder and harder to point out the not-perfect.