KittenKoder
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- Sep 21, 2008
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That's fantastic that you did it on your own! Says a lot about you and your intellectual curiosity.I really am thankful to my highschool teachers for having much of this genre of literature as required reading. It helped instill in me at a young age the importance of the fundamental protections of our freedoms here in the USA and the dangers of limiting them.
My school didn't, our students were more encouraged to join sports and crap like that instead of study anything deep. I read them all on my own, started reading whatever I could when I was in elementary school. Went through all of Lovecraft and Asimov by the time I was in junior high, and then Orwell was an on and off read. Asimov is actually one who should be credited for most of the advances in technology we have seen in the 20th century and even today, it was his "personal communicators" in one of the Opus books that sparked the idea for cell phones, now they look and are used just like what he had discussed there. It's uncanny.
I pretty much had to learn all my higher knowledge on my own. If not for my high learning curve I would have been just as stupid as ... well ... as the idiots we have running our state now.