Maggie's Farm

There is interesting knowledge, there is essential knowledge and there is useless knowledge.

It is interesting to study classical music, to know the work of most of the classical composers and to be able to recognize it when you hear it. Except for pleasure and the satisfaction of knowing this it is merely interesting knowledge.

Much of what we learn falls into this category. School doesn't teach you how to budget, how to save a life, how to invest, how to avoid bad people and pick the right mate. School mostly teaches you interesting and useless knowledge and even then doesn't do it very well.

Do you know how to forage edibles in the wild and live off the land for an extended period of time? Do you know how to make a camp from only what the wilderness provides and survive a sub-freezing night, night after night? Do you know first aid and advanced first aid? Do you know how to survive without the village to take care of you?