psst: Leigh or Blues ~ Maybe a thread should be started on "Art ~ Like it/Love it/Hate it" The both of you started an interesting discussion that should be continued......
Criteria might not be that easy; at 12 an individual are not always able to identify what it is that they might want to pursue, not every child who is able to sing or dance or paint, etc., will want to pursue those objectives.
Scholarships are many and diverse nowadays but are always highly competitive and don't always have the outcome that one is hopeful for.
As to mentoring, any local Boy/Girls Club or even a local school ~ they are always looking for volunteers.
How would you pick those dozen talented teens if you were in the position to do so?
What criteria would you base it on? Would it strictly be limited to your area? The US or any nation? Would it be based on whether or not the parents were poor but honest working folk? What about a child's whose parents are already comfortably well off but don't want to fund that child's dream?
Instead of gifting them a million dollars and education on how to use it wisely, why not instead volunteer your time and efforts to helping those in your area already who would need mentoring?
There probably is more to it. In another post you mentioned little attention to arts, philosophy, scientific breakthroughs. In this fast paced technological age, why would anyone try something new in art or have philosophical questions, or even spend years on pure research if they don't think they are going to get "something" out of it.
Maybe, if we stopped concentrating on the next "newest, better, more improved" thing that seem to invade our lives and stop and think for ourselves a bit more, we could achieve it.
I asked because it seems, to me, that when we hand things to our children, such as college educations, cars, new clothes, money, etc., without expecting them to work for those handouts, then they build up the thought that they will always have things handed to them. The same goes for always bailing them out of any situation when it becomes "too hard."
I'm not saying that all parents do this or that all children who have been given those things are like that but it does seem to start young and when those same individuals hit the work force, the urge to do their best is not there and they feel entitled to a raise, a bonus, little effort for more money.
Could it be that because some were so caught up in trying to out-do one another in the "I have more than you game," and their own entitlement issues that they forgot how to live, how to survive, how to make the most they could out of what they already had/have inside of themselves?
The world has ended or many different civilizations have ended at different time periods? The world has not ended, it has changed and evolved. If the world had ended; then we would not be here typing away.
I don't know enough about nuclear power or hydrogen to make an informed statement. All I remember is the movie "The Day After" that we watched in high school and everyone freaked out thinking that we would all die before we hit our thirties.
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Morning Peeps!
Sorry Leigh but I just had to giggle at this line...I know my mind is a bit twisted today.
RE: balh blah blah what ever you want