I’m a little late on commenting on this blog, but here it is anyway.

I’m glad that you called that teacher what he was, a sadistic asshole. Learning to stand up for what one believes isn’t always easy, but is always the right thing to do.

Thanks for a great story,

Alan

Sadly, the fact that large numbers of ppl may believe something as truth, does not necessarily mean that it truly comports with Reality. Quite the contrary, mass opinion and beliefs are usually wrong. The kind of consensus thinking that goes around today is not formed by necessarily the best minds, or those with the highest integrity and honor. What passes for the abiding beliefs of the day can very well be short-sighted and fallacious as those in pre-Coperninus/Galileo/Kepler period. Learn from the erroneous thinking on statistics and the fallacy of short tails as expounded by Nassim Taleb, author of Balck Swan. What I am trying to say is the truly informed and knowledgeable minority is most likely correct but outnumbered by the masses who are wrong. So, it is right for you to state what you knew as the correct answer and stand up morally for it. (One man with courage makes a majority – Pres. Andrew Jackson). Sometimes you need moral courage to go along with being a Truth-sayer.

As for those corporal punishment by the sadist teacher, it was as extreme as I have heard. I went through my share of ruler on the hands, and paddle on the butt during grade school and high school, respectively. Former for creating disturbance with other kids in the playground (guilty), the latter for not practicing good enough at football (guilty). Today, the pendulum has swung to the other side. No hitting or anything on the kids. The teacher is always the wrong actor or maybe non-actor. Today, undisciplined kids from irresponsible parents and fearful teachers let these unruly, undisciplined kids run wild. Now, maybe they may get some discipline from the military if they ever entered the military which is all-vol, not like the good old days. But maybe now the military has become more “politically correct too”.

Final thoughts: Stand up for what you believe to be right. Hopefully, one’s upbringing, experience, knowledge, and intuition is such that such honorable and righteous ppl are still in sufficient numbers amongst us.

Glenn

I remember the days of having the hands slapped with a ruler; it hurt! I really needed more of it and I think our education system needs more discipline today.

This was inspiring and I hope it has given me new ideas for my blog.

S Wood

Nah, but i liked the post.

Oh, and I never had a chance to thank you. I bought PPC Domination a while back, and I loved every minute, except I decided not to use PPC in marketing.

But it didn’t matter. I decided to go the SEO root, and I still watch PPCD to get help with that!

It doesn’t help to much with the technical side of SEO, but it sure as hell helps a bunch with the keyword research and getting inside my target audiences mind, which applies to SEO just as much as it does with PPC.

I got a little off track on this comment, so I apologize for that, but i didn’t know any other way to tell you. So there it is!

-Landon Stewart

i’ve been having some health problems that have made it difficult for me to sit for any length of time at the computer and be creative. while i’m dealing with these problems, i’m hopeful that my blog subscribers do not feel that they are being neglected.

but as far as listening to gurus goes, i don’t. most of the “rules of thumb” you see on the net and guru advice is just some hocus pocus nonsense that you’re better off doing the opposite of.

i personally don’t blog for “money”. i wanted this blog to be a place where i post whenever i have a real idea i want to share…whether that happens twice a week or once in three months. this way i can keep quality posts here, not space fillers. i dont like to read bullshit and i’m sure none of you guys do.

i promise to start posting again soon…i really do miss hearing everyone’s comments

all the best,

jim

VERY curiously,
Jeff