The James Logan Courier

By Tierra Negra, Courier Special Correspondent

Students graduate from high school completely disconnected of the value of labor and of how each worker in the economy contributes to the creation of higher paid jobs. Technology and theory are given too easily taking away the opportunities to experience efforts involved in the production of goods. This type of instruction increases the breach between laborers and intellectuals.

Nature does not let us forget where we come from: every human must cover a predetermined evolutionary path experienced through various physical changes during a nine months gestation. Imitating such process, we should not allow any educated citizen forget how laborious has been the journey to achieve current technology that save us time and, because is taken for granted, makes us disregard those who grow and harvest our foods, create our garments, and cover our basic needs.

From wikipedia:
Benjamin Rush (January 4, 1746 [O.S. December 24, 1745] – April 19, 1813) was a Founding Father of the United States. Rush lived in the state of Pennsylvania and was a physician, writer, educator, humanitarian and a Christian Universalist, as well as the founder of Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

Rush was a signatory of the Declaration of Independence and attended the Continental Congress. He served as Surgeon General in the Continental army, and was an opponent of Gen. George Washington. Later in life, he became a professor of chemistry, medical theory, and clinical practice at the University of Pennsylvania. Despite having a wide influence on the development of American government, he is not as widely known as many of his American contemporaries. Rush was also an early opponent of slavery and capital punishment.

Visit the website of the Benjamin Rush society.