Not much going on in the Frost household other than the normal chaos. The floor guys finished up Wednesday, so we have been trying to find where we stuffed everything from the two floors of the house they were working on and put things back together. The floors look great; everything turned out perfect. It better; it cost us half what we paid for the log kit we built the house from. Anyway. Last night was the last soccer practice of the season. We played around more than we practiced. I figure at this point that if they don't know what they are supposed to do, a couple hours of kicking a soccer ball around isn't going to help.

I was sent another article that sort of follows up on my posts from the last couple of days. It was written by the president of the University of Vermont. Money quote:

On a tour of Tsinghua's main library, I came upon one of many crowded reading rooms, this one so long that the side walls seemed to converge in the distance, as in an art school exercise in perspective. A center aisle divided two ranks of library tables receding down the long vista, eight seats at each table, almost every seat occupied by a student deep in study, at least 400 silently absorbed in books, writing in notebooks.

There lay the future: focused, determined, intense, inevitable.

As I said, the Chinese know they are behind and are determined to make up lost ground. Meanwhile, in the West we have Political Correctness and anarcho-tyranny. We have exceptions to the general lack of accomplishment, but "[a]lthough South River lies just eight miles from Annapolis, it sometimes seems far from the center of the educational universe in Anne Arundel. Bigger schools with better sports teams grab more headlines.

Now it all becomes clear. Our schools suck at educating our children because their primary purpose is to provide sports teams. Got it. Meanwhile, the first module of China's space station is performing flawlessly. I have this insatiable urge to learn Mandarin.

And that is all I have time for today. I want everyone to note that I made it through an entire blog post without using the word "nude."

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