Nobody ever "taught" you how to talk. Sure, the basic skills of language were developed over time.

Your mother or grandmother or "grammar school" teacher may have corrected you over and over about correct usage. Oftentimes they were wrong.

For instance, if you said, "The rain fell on Joe and me," you were probably corrected more than once.

"I! I! The rain fell on Joe and I."

Well, that's wrong.

Let’s look at it:

Joe and I got wet.

The rain fell on Joe and me.

Think about it (without thinking of your friend Joe):

• Me got wet. (?)

• The rain fell on I. (?)

or

• I got wet.

• The rain fell on me.

It is obvious which sentences are "correct."

The rain fell on Joe and me. If you said, "The rain fell on me and Joe," well that is wrong. Gotta switch up the me and the Joe in this case. But please, don't use "I." You'll sound stupid, which I know you aren't.

And now is the time a lot of us are sending our children back to the institutions of lower learning. Some of the children are already back. Many of us have to send them off. No choice, really.

There are other ways, however. Homeschooling, for one.

A lot of the folks I interact with weekly—and even daily—within the Tom Woods School of Life are dedicated homeschoolers. No way are they going to let some midwit tell their kids that "The rain fell on Joe and I" is the right way to talk. Many such cases.

One of our folks is going so far as to create a free-market schooling marketplace. Parents are going to get to pick their children's classes a la carte, kind of like what happens in universities. History, math, grammar, science, even dance and P.E. (the only reason I liked going to school for most of my "education").

(If you are in the San Diego area, email me and I can get you more information on that project.)

Alternative ways of schooling are also about thinking more clearly and creatively as an adult. How is my child best served?

Take a road trip, perhaps. A "field trip with the family." Explore the great bounty our land has to offer.

As Albert Brooks's character in Lost in America so emphatically states, "We have to touch indians. We have to see the mountains and the prairies and the whole rest of that song..."

As the summer heats up, you may need to head out of town. "Brownouts" are a real concern for us where I live. The internet keeps cutting out too. Oh, the horror!

If you're "car camping," you might need a generator. Perhaps several sources of power that are already "banked."

Our affiliate link below serves all those needs. Even recharge your banks with the power of the sun. Glorious.

As always,

Brian

P.S. -- As for Lost in America, here's a taste:

https://youtu.be/1gab9KyFzck

Great movie. Painful at times. In many ways it was simply lost in the 1980s.