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of course she's a democrat. said ballots she didn't like had no signature. except, they did. She threw the real ones in the trash, and manufactured new ones that didn't have the signature. it's the way they can be sure to "win". get power by any means necessary. https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/may/17/gavin-newsom-california-governor-eyes-prison-closu/

would a normal person think that those millions would be better spent on prisons? oh, there IS the minority vote. and the ex-prisoners vote... https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/may/17/gavin-newsom-california-governor-eyes-prison-closu/

https://www.theblaze.com/news/trump-approval-rating-obama-congress Trump has a higher approval rating than Obama and Bush at the same point in their presidencies Congress enjoyed their highest approval ratings in over a decade President Donald Trump enjoyed his highest Gallup approval rating on May 13. Trump's 49% approval rating is better than four of the last six presidents at the same time during their presidencies. Trump's 49% presidential job approval rating in his 1,209th day in office is higher than Barack Obama's 47% on his 1,209th day in the White House, and better than George W. Bush's 46% on his 1,205th day in office. At the same point in their terms, Bill Clinton had a 55% approval rating, George H.W. Bush was at 40%, Ronald Reagan at 52%, and Jimmy Carter at 38%. Obama, George W. Bush, Clinton, and Reagan each won re-election. Rasmussen found the identical results for the last two presidents at the same point in their presidencies, with Trump edging out Obama in approval ratings 49% to 47%. Rasmussen marked Trump's high-water mark for job performance approval during his presidency at 53% on Sept. 23, 2019, and April 9, 2019. Trump's 49% approval rating from Gallup matches his all-time high, which he also received on April 28 and March 22 of this year. In April, Trump enjoyed a 47% approval rate from independents, the highest of his presidency. Gallup found that 50% of Americans approve of President Trump's handling of the coronavirus pandemic. Congress is also experiencing higher poll numbers during the coronavirus pandemic. The Gallup job approval for Congress went up for a second consecutive month and was at 31%, the highest it has been since September 2009. A major reason for the rise was Congress passing the $2.2 trillion COVID-19 relief bill. Approval of Congress differs based on political parties: 39% of Democrats, 32% of independents, and 24% of Republicans. Congress' approval rating had averaged 17% for the last 10 years, and as low as a 9% approval rating in 2013.

when you get right down to it - that is bs. Home schooling is enriching - those students are NOT marginalized. Quite the opposite. They learn American history. public schools tend to not teach it. They learn from their friends who get bullied in school, how to really enjoy home schooling. And who teaches in the home school environment, is no more important that who it is that teaches in the public school environment. I've had the worst, ineffective, feckless asswhole "teachers" in public schools, and some of them were outstanding. The "one size fits all, and it's sized most often by liberal hacks" in the public school system is garbage. Here in Ohio - the teacher unions fought like all hell against property taxes funding schools, and home schooling. Well, fook them - they get different funding and voila ! they started teaching anti-Christian, ant-God, anti-parent anything and thumbed their nose at parents, because they were no longer accountable to the citizens who pay the bills. and they have tried, but can't stop the bullying of other kids.

"Superior IQs are associated with mental and physical disorders, research suggests " like stupid woodpeckers who have no idea how to be a real American human being. I figure the mental disorders, woodpecker, but do you have physical disorders? after all, I'm just going by a peer reviewed SCIENTIFIC STUDY. and have a nice day. you have to have a 132 IQ? crap. When I tested in school, it was 123/128 something. in the 120's. dammit. I'm only kinda brilliant, but extremely social, humorous, adventurous, and loved. pretty sad when you could have a "high IQ", and only achieve "stupid woodpecker" status, and still die in about two days or less in the wilderness . and not be smart enough to know which end of the fishing pole has the reel on it......... I loved the outdoors far more than schcrewel. But I thrived on American history, English, and poetry, and reading. I used to read Sherlock Holmes in the third grade. I read books like "30 Seconds Over Tokyo", a true story, and "Hound of the Baskervilles". and my favorites "The Hardy Boys". they camped and fished, explored and solved mysteries. I never once had to study for a spelling test. My ideal career would have been a detective, or a fishing guide up in Alaska. Except I dreamed most of the time about fishing and being outdoors, camping, and learning about survival. and fishing. and camping. I thought about those things I loved, most of the time when I was bored with basic math, and when I really didn't like pre calc. Basic trig - I aced that sucker. Theorems were just stupid. American history rocked. Chemistry was just okay - but I was intrigued with colloids. Physics - I loved physics. Magnetism, you betcha. anything with physics. At one point in schrewel, I decided I'd love to be a bio-medical engineer - design advanced prosthetics, human body parts. But, not being one who loved higher math, and the lack of tech at the time - I didn't go there. actually - theorems are really, really stupid. like woodpecker.

Hoorta is trying so hard to be woodpecker's friend. Delusions of grandeur, woodpecker has. Say, how about "Scientific American" ??? https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bad-news-for-the-highly-intelligent/ Neuroscience Bad News for the Highly Intelligent Superior IQs are associated with mental and physical disorders, research suggests Now there’s some bad news for people in the right tail of the IQ bell curve. In a study just published in the journal Intelligence, Pitzer College researcher Ruth Karpinski and her colleagues emailed a survey with questions about psychological and physiological disorders to members of Mensa. A “high IQ society,” Mensa requires that its members have an IQ in the top 2 percent. For most intelligence tests, this corresponds to an IQ of about 132 or higher. (The average IQ of the general population is 100.) The survey of Mensa’s highly intelligent members found that they were more likely to suffer from a range of serious disorders. The survey covered mood disorders (depression, dysthymia and bipolar), anxiety disorders (generalized, social and obsessive-compulsive), attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and autism. It also covered environmental allergies, asthma and autoimmune disorders. Respondents were asked to report whether they had ever been formally diagnosed with each disorder or suspected they suffered from it. With a return rate of nearly 75 percent, Karpinski and her colleagues compared the percentage of the 3,715 respondents who reported each disorder to the national average.

you know the colombine school murderers? went to a public school. they were bullied, etc. the murdering kid in Florida? public school. Public schools don't teach American history. Why schools have stopped teaching American history https://nypost.com/2017/01/22/why-schools-have... Jan 22, 2017 · “Don’t know much about history . . .,” goes the famous song. It’s an apt motto for the Common Core’s elementary school curriculum. And it’s becoming a serious problem. A 2014 report by … https://jessicaautumn.com/public-schools-are-failing/ 1.Boring The majority of kids will tell you that they do not like school and this seems normal to us. It’s like we automatically assume that school is supposed to be boring. Think back to something you learned in the past that interested you. Was that boring? Of course not! Learning shouldn’t be a chore. You may say well they need to learn the stuff, right? Just because they memorize something for a test does not mean they learned anything. It seems like a big waste of time to me. Why is so much time and effort put into memorization? This brings me to my solution. Schools should focus more on the individual’s interest. Of course, everyone should learn basic skills like reading, writing, and math. But classrooms should be set up to better meet the individuals needs. Children learn more when they are excited about something. Montessori classrooms also work well for children. The older kids can help the younger children learn, while learning to become leaders. Most children these days don’t even understand the basics about our world. Ever ask a child where lettuce comes from? Many of them will say from a bag or from the store. And who can blame them? There are some schools that have nature classrooms. These outdoor classrooms allow children to learn so much more than they ever could in a classroom looking at a book. It wouldn’t even cost much to create one at every school and many parents would enjoy bringing in the resources necessary. Here is an article from the National Wildlife Federation discussing some amazing benefits of exposing children to the natural world. Kids are not meant to sit still all day long. They need to move! It makes no sense that all these kids are on drugs for ADHD because they are just being kids. My little brother just completed the fourth grade and he didn’t have recess the entire year! Then his teacher suggested medication because he is hyper. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out the real issue. 2.Parents don’t teach the Children at Home People need to take responsibility for their actions and for their children. When a child goes to kindergarten and doesn’t know the basics, how is that teacher supposed to catch that kid up? Solution: Parents need to teach their kids. Simple right? If you are too busy to teach your kids, you are just too busy. I know many people that have kids that are going to kindergarten soon and are not ready. The parents have failed to take the time needed to teach their kids what they need to know. It is abnormal to not be able to understand a four-year-old child with no disabilities or for them to not be potty trained. 3.Dumbed Down Material Talk to any educated elderly person and they will tell you how much harder school was some years ago. For example, my college professor’s generation read the Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle among many other books that people don’t read today. They were able to understand it, but when he became a professor he learned from all his failing students that he had to dumb down the material. Then a couple of years later he had to dumb it down again. My class read the Road Less Traveled by Scott Peck, which is somewhat similar. But many people even had a hard time with reading that. Programs like No Student Left Behind encouraged teachers to make it too easy for any kid to pass. They weren’t retaining the knowledge they needed to become successful. Seeing an A on a child’s report card makes parents proud. But you have to think is that an A any more than what a C was back in the 70s? Grade inflation is not a good thing in the long run. Most kids these days get A’s and B’s, but how does this make sense if we’re ranked so low compared to the other nations? Shouldn’t we be competing against them instead of falling behind? Here’s a great article by Applerouth called When A is for Average: the High Cost of Grade Inflation. 4.Funding The property tax of the area determines the funding. This is a huge problem. Poor children are off to a bad start from the get-go. There is no mystery behind a poor generation that raises another poor generation. It takes a lot of hard work on an individual’s part to get out of that poor mentality. It can happen, but it is rare and would be better if everyone was on a level playing field. The solution to this one could come from many avenues. A pulling of the states property taxes and distributing them evenly throughout all the schools would help. But I think a better solution would be for schools to have to compete for funding. Take a charter school for example. They have to be competitive so more kids go there or they don’t get funding. There are not enough charter schools available and some even have to offer a lottery style system to decide what kids can get in. Many parents really want their child to go there. America spends more per student than any other country so this point could be argued. So a lack of funding is only a small piece of the puzzle. 5.Teachers Tenure Yes, there are positives for teacher tenure. But, yet there are also a lot of negatives. I am all for protecting teachers because we know that false accusations come up very often. At the same time, many children don’t receive a quality education. Some teachers think since they can’t get fired without a lengthy process (and many schools don’t want to go through that). They don’t have to try after their probationary period if they don’t want to. Good teachers are a HUGE necessity for student learning. They contribute to making a society successful. There needs to be closer monitoring of teachers performance, but they should still have protections. 6.No uniforms I am a big supporter of uniforms. I remember being a poor kid in school. My clothes weren’t the nicest and some kids made fun of me. There were people who got it worse than me and I will admit it was nice for the heat to be off of me back then. It shouldn’t be like that. In schools where kids have to wear uniforms, it levels the playing field a bit. Yes, there are still problems in schools with uniforms. This is real life. Problems are everywhere, but reducing unnecessary problems is the point. I had one nice shirt in middle school and I wore it quite often. Sure enough, I got laughed at and felt totally humiliated. I think we all had at least one bad experience in school because of our clothes. 7.They don’t give alternatives to college after high school College is great for some, don’t get me wrong. I think education is very important, but the idea that college is the only way to get educated is naive. Some of the most successful people are either college dropouts or they never even went. Take Mark Zuckerberg, the creator of Facebook, for example. He dropped out of college and is one of the most successful people in our society today. Now, you may say they are the exception to the rule. I beg to differ. A person can go to school to become a teacher and make on average $44,848. They also rack up a ton of student loan debt. That doesn’t make them more successful than the postal worker that has no student loan debt and makes on average $53,100. Many people with degrees are still living in poverty. No one wants to talk to students about other career paths other than the one that involves a college degree. This is limiting to the students that don’t want to go to college. More options need to be a given to students. It’s not you either go to college or else you are a failure, but unfortunately this is how many children feel. 8. Bullying Implementing anti-bullying programs into schools only does one thing. Makes the people in charge look good. Bullying is still prevalent in the public school system. I imagine you were probably bullied at some point while you were in school. I think it’s safe to say we all experienced it to some degree. It hurts. Children shouldn’t be scared to go to school. My brother goes to a good school, but there is still a lot of bullying going on there. A lot of the teachers are not observant of what is going on. Many times nothing’s done even when the issue is brought to the staff’s attention. There are great teachers that are mindful of what is going on their classrooms. They take the necessary steps to make sure everyone feels safe, but there are many that do not. 9. Indoctrinating children This is a big one and a touchy subject. Schools should only be teaching kids how to think, not what to think. Why can’t the government just let the kids learn? Instead of shoving their agendas down their throats. Most boys like G.I. Joes and most girls like Barbie’s. There is nothing wrong with that! Let them be. Did you know that the state of Oregon allows 15-year-olds to get a sex change without parental consent? 94% of children grow out of transgenderism by adulthood so most of these teens end up regretting it! Since when have teenagers been known to make good decisions? When a child’s confused about their sexuality they don’t need people pressuring them to get a sex change, but to help them work through it. If they grow up and still want to get a sex change then so be it. There are so many so-called “social justice” issues being thrown at little children that are doing more harm than good. Schools could be awesome… If we had more people who cared enough to change them. Everyone is so busy working their lives away that they don’t see what’s really going on. And there are some people who just feel powerless to fix anything. This is why we need to be informed voters. The right people need to get elected to represent the people. If you are already a voter, ask yourself are you truly informed or do you only have half of the story? Take the time out of your busy schedule to get to know who is running for the federal and state offices. There is more to each candidate than what you see in a five-minute segment on the news and a Facebook meme to consider. Related: Are Millennials The Worst Generation Ever? Do you think public schools are failing our society? What are some of your ideas to make them better? Let me know in the comments below!

I will do that - it could be taken out of context - but saying what she said directly lends itself to that. When I have time, that is. I have to make a few batches of vidalia onion relish, do some big honey-do jobs, we went for a mile hike through some woods with friends to get back into hiking shape, just got back. Might put the big rototiller on the tractor and til up the big garden. Bought a couple hundred tomato plants yesterday... I'm good with the suggestion - I'll try to get to it later today.

totally wrong, but I understand how you and Hoorta don't get it. I figure it this way - and I'm right: Bullying is a very serious problem in public schools. Drugs are a serious problem in a lot of public schools. "Common Sense" indocrination is very common in the very wrong ways. Anti-God, anti-Christian bigotry is rampant in many public school systems, teacher by teacher, or by principals, superintendents. Extreme democrat-favoring political bigotry is rampant all over our school system. My Wife was given a hard time once, by the union rep, for not saying who she was going to vote for - as in, whether she would vote democrat or not. I heard about it, and my Wife's friends went to the rep and told her to apologize and STFU or she would meet me, and she'd be on the short end of the stick. She apologized and my Wife nor any of her friends were ever harassed again on the subject. It's the entire NEA, each state.... and kids who are homeschooled are the happiest kids around. And they have all sorts of friends in the neighborhood. They have friends outside their neighborhood with other homeschooled kids. The NEA is a politicized for democrats org, plain and simple. locked in. Leftwing opposition to home schooling is based on: wanting more money for public schools, wanting to indoctrinate ALL American kids, and complete control and power over an entire community/city school system. I know homeschooled kids who grew up very well adjusted and very happy - and very successful. Liberals demand control, and if they don't get it... they bitch forever. Bigotry towards all home schooled kids is stupid.

they never had a chinese virus floating around, the the Professor was always RIGHT, and they didn't HAVE a president. It's dumb.

of "safety". That is, they say the virus started in the meat markets, except they let those start back up... and destroyed the lab samples out of safety, except would never let the outside world, not even the WHO whose director is their stupid puppet in the coverup, ...in to investigate the origins of the virus. how convenient. They lied about the numbers, lied about the origin, lied when they insisted it was not transmissable human-to-human, they censored anybody who was going to tell the truth, they closed off wuhan, but insisted free travel of chinese people to Europe and Canada... they did this to the entire world. They are going to pay for all this. All Americans should file a class action lawsuit. https://www.theblaze.com/news/china-samples-destroyed-pompeo

he's toast. landslide win for President Trump. woodpecker's sex goddess amash independent is NOT running for pres.

1984 American socialist KGB. information is a weapon. actually, every single part of our lives will be a weapon they WILL use.

nope - your obaMao commie put HIMSELF IN THE NEWS. it's current. and there are many legit reasons to bash the trash buttock, he lied to get to the presidency, committed major scandals, spying, and destruction of our country... you TDSers hate Trump because he had? an orange tan and he tweets. You don't post like you have that high IQ. Probably paid people to take your tests for you, and got your job in your family's business. Or, you haven't really gotten out of the 9th grade - it's tough to decide which is more likely. there are no legit reasons to bash Pres Trump - he didn't lie to get there, he made all those excellent promises, and kept them. I'm good with that. Heck with his skin color, racist woodpecker.

woody never has a point. Let me try to post like a woodpecker or Hoorta: "Lee Harvey Oswald went to public schools, and was mentally damaged, therefore going to public schools causes mental damage and murderers of presidents". egad. That DOES sound like woodpecker. not bad. Doesn't quite sound like Hoorta though.

but WAIT ! THERE ARE MORE ! http://www.successful-homeschooling.com/famous-homeschoolers.html Famous Homeschoolers The following list of famous homeschoolers includes artists, athletes, authors, businessmen, composers, entertainers, explorers, inventors, military leaders, photographers, presidents, religious leaders, scientists, statesman, U.S. Supreme Court Judges, and women who were homeschooled at some point of their eduction. At the end is a list of famous parents who are homeschooling their children. Artists Claude Monet Grandma Moses Leonardo da Vinci Rembrandt Peale (return to top) Athletes Michelle Kwan Jason Taylor Tim Tebow Serena Williams Venus Williams (return to top) Authors Agatha Christie Alex Haley Beatrix Potter C.S. Lewis Charles Dickens George Bernard Shaw Hans Christian Anderson Louisa May Alcott Margaret Atwood Mark Twain Phillis Wheatley Pearl S. Buck Robert Frost Virginia Woolf (return to top) Businessmen Andrew Carnegie Colonel Harland Sanders Dave Thomas Joseph Pulitzer Ray Kroc (return to top) Composers Felix Mendelssohn Irving Berlin John Philip Sousa Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (return to top) Entertainers Alan Alda Charlie Chaplin Christina Aguilera Dakota Fanning Hanson Hillary Duff Jennifer Love Hewitt Justin Timberlake LeAnne Rimes Louis Armstrong Whoopi Goldberg (return to top) Explorers Davy Crockett George Rogers Clark (return to top) Inventors Alexander Graham Bell Benjamin Franklin Cyrus McCormick Eli Whitney Thomas Edison Orville Wright Wilbur Wright (return to top) Military Leaders Douglas MacArthur George Patton John Paul Jones Robert E. Lee Stonewall Jackson Matthew Perry (return to top) Photographers Ansel Adams (return to top) Presidents Abraham Lincoln Andrew Jackson Franklin Delano Roosevelt George Washington Grover Cleveland James Garfield James Madison John Adams John Quincy Adams John Tyler Theodore Roosevelt Thomas Jefferson William Henry Harrison Woodrow Wilson (return to top) Religious Leaders Brigham Young Dwight L. Moody Joan of Arc John & Charles Wesley William Carey (return to top) Scientists Albert Einstein Blaise Pascal Booker T. Washington George Washington Carver Pierre Curie (return to top) Statesman Alexander Hamilton Daniel Webster Patrick Henry William Jennings Bryan William Penn Winston Churchill (return to top) United States Supreme Court Judges John Jay John Marshall John Rutledge Sandra Day O'Connor (return to top) Women Abigail Adams, wife of John Adams Clara Barton, started the red cross Florence Nightingale, nurse Martha Washington, wife of George Washington Susan B. Anthony, women's rights leader (return to top) Famous Homeschooling Parents Lisa Whelchel Kelley Preston and John Travolta Will and Jada Pinkett Smith

well, then there's a repeat of non-scientists: https://www.toptenz.net/top-10-successful-homeschooled-people.php https://newswithviews.com/our-lucky-founding-fathers-they-were-home-schooled/

these "good nazis" of obaMao commie - should have all been fired his first week of being our terrific Real American president. Thank GOD for President Trump - or the organized crime would have permanently owned out country. https://www.redstate.com/bonchie/2020/05/16/teeth-are-gnashed-after-state-dept.-ig-is-fired-heres-the-real-story/

https://www.redstate.com/elizabeth-vaughn/2020/05/16/heres-the-solution-highly-respected-cdc-official-suggests-for-vaccine-refusers/ yep. if you don't do what you are told, and get their "vaccine", just get rid of all the white people in the United States. yes, she is serious.

he isn't just "in the past". He's now. Apparently, it's obaMao commie that okay'd the spying on Flynn. worse and worse. obaMao and biden are completely corrupt dirtbags. https://www.redstate.com/elizabeth-vaughn/2020/05/16/dan-bongino-part-2/

I read every one of them. And each one makes you look more and more like a nittwitbird woodpecker.

How about just leaving it to hiring the RIGHT COACH who comes in and is successful? Like, the Browns should get an extra first round draft pick next year.

100% agree.

I just wish you weren't so ignorant - you should have been home schooled maybe. You can't constructively contribute to any conversation. I'd bet home schooled kids learned American history - they put you to shame right there. and I know a lot of homeschooled kids who have made it outstandingly in life. you, nope. In your beak, fake science birdbrain: https://www.famousscientists.org/great-scientists-homeschooled/ 13 Great Scientists Who Were Home-schooled By The Doc Here are some of the greatest scientists in history who were home-schooled. John Eccles 1903 – 1997. John Eccles was home-schooled to age 12 by his mother, a former schoolteacher. A neurophysiologist, he won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the physiology of synapses, discovering how nerve cells communicate with one another. Sophie Germain 1776 – 1831. Sophie Germain never went to school. From age 13, she taught herself advanced mathematics. Sophie’s parents were unhappy about her obsession with mathematics. They denied her heat and light in her room. One winter morning they found her asleep, huddled under a blanket with a mathematics book in front of her, a burned-out candle from a hidden cache beside her, and her inkwell frozen by the intense cold. At this point they surrendered. Sophie Germain’s theory of surface vibrations brought her the prestigious Paris Academy of Sciences Prize in 1816, the first ever won by a woman. She made significant progress on proving Fermat’s Last Theorem. Ambrose Fleming 1849 – 1945. Ambrose Fleming was educated by his mother to age 10, learning to read seated on her knees. At age 11, he built model steam engines and boats. He constructed a camera from a cigar box, becoming a skilled photographer, making his own photographic plates from collodion and silver nitrate. He developed his own photos using potassium cyanide. Fleming founded the electronic age with his invention of the vacuum tube (thermionic valve). He also devised the hand rules for electric motors and generators. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691. Born into a wealthy family, in his infancy Robert Boyle was sent to live with a poor family to toughen him up. When he returned home, he was tutored in French and Latin. At age eight, he was sent to boarding school for three years. After this he had no formal education, but on a Grand Tour of Europe he learned how Galileo had used mathematics to explain motion. As an adult, Robert Boyle transformed chemistry from a field mired in alchemy and mysticism into one based on measurement. He defined elements, compounds, and mixtures, and he discovered Boyle’s Law – the first gas law. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910. Florence Nightingale was home-schooled by her father to an extremely high standard, reproducing his own education at the University of Cambridge, including French, German, Italian, Greek, Latin, Philosophy, and Mathematics. Florence was a polymath with exceptional skills. She transformed nursing into a respected, highly trained profession; used statistics to analyze wider health outcomes; and advocated sanitary reforms largely credited with adding 20 years to life expectancy between 1871 and 1935. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836. André-Marie Ampère’s father followed Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s approach to education, which meant no school and no formal lessons. The young Ampère could do as he pleased and was encouraged to read anything he liked from his father’s large library. He chose to teach himself advanced mathematics. In later life he made the revolutionary discovery that a wire carrying electric current can magnetically attract or repel another wire next to it that’s also carrying electric current. He also formulated Ampere’s Law of electromagnetism. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852. Ada Lovelace was taught at home by private tutors. She cooperated with Charles Babbage in writing the world’s first computer program and broke new ground when she realized a computer could go beyond numbers to carry out other operations, such as composing music. Bernhard Riemann 1826 – 1866. Home-schooled to age 13 mainly by his father, Bernhard Riemann’s parents believed the most important thing they could give their children was a solid education. His father enlisted a local teacher to teach 10-year-old Bernhard arithmetic and geometry, but soon Bernhard was teaching his teacher! Bernhard Riemann transformed geometry and provided the foundation of Einstein’s theory of general relativity. The Riemann hypothesis has become the most famous unresolved problem in mathematics. Blaise Pascal 1623 – 1662. Blaise Pascal was home-schooled by his father, who was a lawyer and first-rate mathematician. By age 16, Blaise was writing mathematical treatises of such sophistication that René Descartes incorrectly believed they were the boy’s father’s work. Blaise Pascal invented the hydraulic press and the mechanical calculator, devised Pascal’s triangle for the binomial coefficients, and co-founded probability theory. Pascal’s wager is his justification for believing in God. Carolus Linnaeus 1707 – 1778. Carolus Linnaeus was home-schooled to age 10. He picked up his father’s great love of Nature, and learned to speak Latin before he started walking. He devised the formal two-part naming system, such as Tyrannosaurus rex and Homo sapiens, we use to classify all lifeforms. He named about 13,000 lifeforms and classified them into categories such as mammals, birds, fish, primates, canines, etc, and invented index cards as a means of keeping records of species. Irène Joliot-Curie 1897 – 1956. Irène was the daughter of Marie Curie. Irène’s mother grew increasingly disenchanted with schools in Paris, and she formed a school with other academics. Irène and nine other children were taught physics by Marie Curie, chemistry by Jean Baptiste Perrin (who later won a Nobel Prize in physics), and mathematics by the great physicist Paul Langevin. There was only one class a day, then the children worked on their own. As an adult Irène Joliot-Curie discovered how to synthesize ‘designer’ radioactive elements in the laboratory, winning a Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Hans Christian Oersted 1777 – 1851. Hans Christian Oersted and his younger brother Anders were educated through a combination of home schooling and private tutors. Anders later became Prime Minister of Denmark. At age 12, helping in his father’s pharmacy, Hans became interested in chemistry. He began a new scientific epoch when he discovered that electricity and magnetism are linked, showing that an electric current flowing through a wire could move a nearby magnet. James Joule 1818 – 1889. James Joule’s childhood health was delicate, and he was mostly home-schooled. Later he was tutored in arithmetic and geometry by John Dalton. Joule discovered that heat and mechanical work are interconvertible, leading to the law of conservation of energy. The SI unit of energy, the joule, is named for him.