“We are now considering legislation based on statistics that include name-calling at public rallies as crimes. Are we going on to the school yards of this country and when two kids get angry with each other and call each other names -- what are we going to do, cart them over to the reformatory or add them to the list of 'hate crimes' perpetrators? This is ridiculous.” TwoCountryKidsSchoolHateNamesCrimeCallingSpeechAngryAddCorruptionListsRidiculousDeceptionStatisticsConsideringYardsLegislationHate CrimeCartsPerpetratorsName Calling Author:Jesse Helms
“We know today about nutrition and we know about exercise. There's no reason for anybody to be sick and tired, fat and out of shape -- it's ridiculous! This has got to be taught in the schools. It's got to be taught in kindergarten. That's when kids should first get the idea that the most important thing in your life is your health and your body.” KnowsShouldFirstsImportantIdeasReasonBodyKidsTodaySchoolLife IsTaughtExerciseShapesSickImportant ThingsTiredYour BodyRidiculousFatsNo ReasonNutritionKindergartenImportant Things In Your Life Author:Jack LaLanne
“Have I ever remarked on how completely ridiculous it is to ask high school students to decide what they want to do with the rest of their lives and give them nearly no support in doing so? Support like, say, spending a day apiece watching twenty different jobs and then another week at their top three choices, with salary charts and projections and probabilities of graduating that subject given their test scores? The more so considering this is a central allocation question for the entire economy?” WantGivingDifferentSchoolJobsChoicesThreeAsksGivenSupportEconomyWeekSubjectsStudentsHigh SchoolTestsTwentiesSpendingRidiculousScoreGraduatesConsideringProbabilitySalaryProjectionDifferent JobsAllocationHigh School StudentsTest Scores Author:Eliezer Yudkowsky