Let me say this about that. A friend of mine happened upon an old copy of an entrance exam for the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) the other day.  He and I graduated together with bachelor’s degrees from this prestigious engineering institution, sometime shortly after the Civil War.  Just for fun, he took the exam again to see if he still […]

Let me say this about that. Question:  What happens when you mix good intentions with stupidity?   Answer:  A dumb idea.  Dumb ideas abound in America, in part because we have a huge base of good-intentioned people.  Regrettably, because we also have abandoned disciplining our children and allowed our education system to become little more than a government run baby-sitting service, we […]

Let me say this about that. I received sad news a few days ago.  Professor Cecil G. Johnson, World War II bomber pilot,  Georgia Tech engineering professor extraordinaire, and my mentor passed away last Sunday.  To characterize Prof. Johnson as as an educator would be like saying Mohammad Ali was merely a boxer.  Cecil Johnson was a giant among […]