Alfred wrote:

Vito, you should consider speaking about things you understand. For
real men there is no escape from obligations.

Being older, I understand more than you want to admit. You are planning
to take your son out of school and society in order to escape the rat
race. Where will that leave him? Being educated, intelligent, skilled,
whatever, means less and less these days - one has to have
*credentials*.

I *independently* developed a service protection circuit that was
immediately incorporated into the whole Bell System, nationwide. Who got
the credit? Why a Ph.D. from Bell Labs of course. After many had failed,
I developed computer SW to do target weapon pairing and scheduling. My
detailed flow charts and equations went to a think tank contractor who
got the credit and the $$$. My troubles aside, the point is whether you
want your son to suffer the same crap.

OTOH Dick Nixon did OK because he met the scion of Occidental Petroleum
at Harvard.

If you really are eager to shoulder your obligations then you should
bite the bullet for a dozen more years to earn enough money to get the
kid thru a prestigious law or medical school, or into the Jesus
business. There'll be time for you to escape later.

Vito wrote:

OTOH Dick Nixon did OK because he met the scion of Occidental Petroleum
at Harvard.

??? Nixon hated "the ultra-liberal Harvard professors in John F.
Kennedy's White House." Nixon received his law degree from Duke in
1937:
http://www.teachervision.fen.com/les...esson-185.html

Al Gore was the son who benefitted from Armand Hammer's personal
largesse and friendship with his Senator Dad.
http://archive.salon.com/politics200...pi/index1.html

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