You should know that Crafty men condemn studies; simple men admire them and wise men use them. Be a wise man and use the education to get a job, search online for High Speed Universities you will be surprised to learn how fast it is to get degree and pump up your resume

“High Speed Universities you will be surprised to learn how fast it is to get degree and pump up your resume.”

Before you spend your hard earned cash on these fly by night Universities make sure the job you are applying for recognises the certificate from that University.

Alot of degrees aren’t worth the paper they are written on.

It is easy to get a degree. It takes effort and skill to acquire knowledge.

The two are becoming less and less frequently synonymous.

A degree does not mean employable either.

“With close to 75-thousand students in rural schools across the province”

When put in that wsy it sure brings a different perspective to the issue. Obviously it is about time the issue is addressed a bit more seriously than it seems to have been.

More importantly, employable does not mean for a lifetime anymore either. Depending on the nature of the employability of an individual, it may not mean for longer than a year, five years, twenty years, etc.

We are living in an age when people are expendable to corporations.

I think that those with a degree who have picked up the flexible mindset which goes along with a quality degree are more flexoible and employable than those whio have picked up a skillset which are perishable.

Very few people speak about perishable skills and even fewer speak about perishable knowledge.

Alvin Toffler – 1970’s “future shock”:

“The illiterte of the year 2000 will not be the individual who cannot read and write, but the one who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn.”

He was talking about those known as the functional illiterate. Those who can read, but do not understand what they are reading because they have stopped learning.

Yeah, nobody ever said there were any guarantees in life. Getting a degree only increases your odds of finding decent employment.

I find that most of the people who look down on post secondary education are those who barely made it out of high school.

why can’t courses be taken through the internet in rural locations?

Why can’t we shut down all schools, colleges and universities and get everyone to take courses over the internet.

Why can’t we go to Blenz, Starbucks, Second Cup, the local Pubs, etc. over the internet?

Why can’t we go to Mexico, Italy, Scottsdale, Long Beach on the internet?

Why can’t we go to McDonald’s, Joe Fortes, etc. over the internet?

“Education” especially the early years, is very much a socialization event. Learning how to get along with others in a structured setting. Learning to “play” nicely together.

Education is a two way communication … which turns into a multi-directional communication environment at its best. Discourse, body language … and on and on …

Gus:”It is easy to get a degree. It takes effort and skill to acquire knowledge. The two are becoming less and less frequently synonymous.”

True enough! Knowledge is one aspect. The application of knowledge is the more important. The application of knowledge requires wisdom, the most important aspect.

I am experiencing a lesson lately in the efforts (to be continued!) to have the Prince George medication of our tap water with hydrofluorosilicic acid stopped. All the people who are supposed to have the skills and learned knowledge and who are given decision making powers lack the wisdom to act wisely. They WILL NOT pay attention to the obvious!

They apparently do not possess the wisdom to recognize that they should act wisely by applying the Precautionary Principle which dictates that with ever increasing evidence of harm measures are to be taken to prevent further harm.

They also apparently lack the wisdom to realize that mass medication of drinking water with any substance is unethical, immoral, undemocratic and even illegal.

Whatever happened to individual rights? What is next? Prozac and Lipitor?

98% of B.C. is already free of artificial fluoride addition! Last unwise hold-outs:

Terrace, Fort St. John, Prince George.

Polluted drinking water – on Earth Day of all things!

Really quite unbelievable!

To me it is believable. While I know very little about the issue, I might have ome time to look into it. I suspect that this might actually be an issue to raise provincially. I cannot see why cities would have the authority to add medication into the water. It is not a water safety issue.

What is northern health saying? What is the Minstry of Health saying? I would forget about PG Council. They are just covering their behinds.

What are they saying? Standard pre-scripted replies – if they do reply. More often than not there is NO reply, not even an acknowledgement of having received an email or even a registered letter!

Municipalities have the only authority to add artificial chemical effluent fluoride. The provincial government says that it does not have the authority to interfere in municipal jurisdiction. The NDP government did interfere on PG’s behalf by eliminating the requirement to have a referendum. Prince George NEVER had a referendum!

The rest of the province (98%) has no interest in the matter because it does NOT add chemical effluent fluoride to tap water. Water safety is addressed by either chlorination, ozone and/or ultraviolet treatment to eliminate water born bacteria.

Artificial water fluoridation does NOT treat water! It treats patients with a medication with no control over dosage and potential adverse effects on people with disabilities like poor kidney, liver or thyroid function and osteoporosis.

There is NO follow up by the medical profession about how patients are affected over the long term! Nobody gets called regularly for medical checkups and blood and urine tests!~

It is the only mass medication allowed to be officially administered by the final decision of people (a city council) who have no medical degrees or any medical knowledge.

The dosage depends entirely on how much water a person consumes every day and how much exposure a person has by bathing.

Most of Europe does not fluoridate. Japan and China have banned it as have a large number of other countries. The only countries which still fluoridate are Australia, Canada and the USA. And even there every year dozens of cities are added to the list of hundreds who have wisely decided to stop this practice.

Quebec is effluent fluoride addition free and British Columbia is ALMOST there! Only 2% are still left – Terrace, Fort St. John and (of course!) Prince George!

I personally DEMAND equal treatment! I am not asking the city to spend extra money to make sure I get un-medicated water! I have the same right to get un-medicated tap water as the majority is getting already! One turn of a valve to shut it off is all that needs to be done!

I have also started to save all my bills for the reverse-osmosis fluoride free drinking water I must buy out of necessity and I will present those to the city for reimbursement once I have accumulated a couple of thousands of dollars!

Since Prince George never had a referendum it does not need a referendum to stop it!

BTW, I have NO objection to the naturally occurring low concentration of calcium fluoride in Prince George drinking water.

Calcium fluoride is a highly insoluble fluoride leached ouf rocks over time. Too much of this natural fluoride however is harmful as well. In China and India for example expensive water filtration systems remove excess calcium fluoride from drinking water in certain areas.

Hydrofluorosilicic acid fluoride (the stuff used in Prince George) is NO substitute for natural calcium fluoride.
Human beings evolved through the millenia and are able to excrete the natural fluoride if it is within safe levels.

Hydrofluorosilicic acid is highly soluble! It is suspected to be a mutagenic substance because it has been implicated to attack genes DNA and cause an increase in mutations.

Each mutation with damaged DNA increases the risk of cancer.

There are a host of other health concerns!

If the city feels that the natural calcium fluoride level is too low – how about adding natural calcium fluoride instead of this dreadful phosphate fertilizer industry effluent scrubber junk it is using now?

My frustration is showing! Fluoride is not essential to human life! It wouldn’t be a good idea to add even a natural substance to tap water! Nothing should be added. No medication or supplement of any kind! People can choose their own supplements and take their own risks, hopefully under medical supervision!

This city just doesn’t get the message.