Dr. Christopher Shade

And it was like really it was real true intellectualism.

and really teaching people how to think.

And you could write something that people didn't agree with, but if you were thinking it through, that's fine.

That was what you were getting tested on, where you applying your mind to intellectual thought and development of ideas.

And that just is not a thing anymore.

What did he teach?

He taught American history.

Yeah.

And then he taught, uh, taught American history in Russia for like five, six years.

And, you know, he loved going to different cultures and, you know, he was, he, he was really brilliant at it and, you know, encyclopedic in history, like everywhere, but real good critical thinking.

Nice.

Yeah.

That's a lost skill these days.

It's really sad.

My son was lamenting he had this assignment and he's all into green building.

He had just worked a summer for me and he was all into air conditioning and airflow and heating and passive heating and cooling.

And all the teacher wanted to do was

to design it a little bit more insulation into the walls.

And instead he like redesigned the whole building to have like passive heating and cooling and all this green stuff.

And the woman didn't even really know the stuff that she failed him for not doing exactly what she told him to do.