by Glenn H. Ray:
The first university learning degree I received was in 1956 with a major in Geography and minor in Russian. I was exploring. Grades had meaning then. I wanted to study the world and learn a foreign language. Russian was an easy choice for me….nothing to do with ancestry. It had to do with my and my country’s future. The fascist, terrifying USSR was then the powerful enemy of our American way.
My instructors, solid professors, were all male and all phD’s….NO funky graduate students who could barely speak English, and no easy gradings for leftists as in our ‘modern’ era. Tuition cost me only $30 per quarter.
We undergraduates were often told at the beginning of each class instruction to look to the front, to the back and to both sides and then yourself because in two years three of you today’s students will no longer be at the University of Minnesota’s College of Liberal Arts. They told the Truth as it turned out.
To get this first college degree I had to study climatology, geology, geomorphology, astronomy, as well as geography of the world’s continents and their countries which truly fascinated me.
No longer did I have to cheat about reading novels in those English classes. I suffer a dyslexia, (not yet ‘invented’ then, so I had no clue)…. I couldn’t, can’t, make anything out of reading real novels. I have those remarkable visual skills I was born with, instead.
It was the content of novels. I’d buy the classic comics such as Dicken’s Tale of Two Cities, zip through them, enjoy them enough to search out and then read accurately in the actual novel the most exciting sections of the novel. Anything by William Thackeray, and such, was too dull, to distant visually from the mind or whatever, to remember or grasp anything. Mentally, I couldn’t connect every time I’d try to read a novel.
I have a personal library in my old age of a couple thousand books, mostly texts, histories, biographies, “1984”, reality stuff including nineteenth century readings like McGuffey readers. Here, my memory was solid. I loved sharing these learnings, so my first career became teaching high schoolers…….
I learned something about the disappearance of the dinosaurs those 65 million years ago…..you remember, those huge creatures running around America’s Dakota’s, eating those fern trees and the tonnage of the Brontosaurs, the ones especially tasty to Tyrannosaurus Rex…..
……and the more recent stuff including the glacial periods of tens of thousands of years ago…..like the last one in northern Minnesota around Duluth before Lake Superior was born with the melting of thousands of feet of glacial ice!!!
THANK GOD FOR THAT GLOBAL WARMING OR WE HUMANS WOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN ABLE TO LIVE HERE….but our today’s lefty Democrat Party doesn’t give a damn about TRUTH!. They don’t seem to be interested in knowledge either.
Neither were the Soviets, folks.
Please continue reading below regarding Truth instead of today’s Politics regarding “Global Warming”:
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