Healthy Feet, Starving Minds

The Tulsa World reports today that all 300 students at Eugene Field Elementary got a free pair of athletic shoes, courtesy of Wal-Mart and other donors.

I don't want to minimize the generosity of these people, nor the importance of quality footwear.  I do hope, though, that the tragedy is not lost on anyone that, while a gesture of this nature is nice, people seem stumped as to how to prevent the almost inevitable intellectual inanition these bright, young children will experience as they grow in an educational system hell bent on depriving them of the only thing a human mind can feed on: good ideas.

"The human [brain] is like a millstone, turning ever round and round,

If it have nothing else to grind, it must itself be ground."