I used to have this recurring dream about going back to school, and though I was tempted to write a murder mystery about the vanishing inspectors, I decided to fulfill my recurring dream.
Now, for some the idea of going back to school, would be more like a nightmare, but I had actually grown to enjoy school, so when my school years were abruptly brought to an end, and I was muscled into a career in the military, there was a very definite sense of an uncompleted chapter in my life.
Being the father of five sons and a daughter, who have almost altogether finished with education, and marking the colossal gap in learning that I might have had, had I not continued to study, howbeit privately, I thought I might as well pick up on a chapter of that experience, courtesy of the internet, in particular the video experience.
So why ‘Biology’ — Well, I was banished from school in early, early 1975. As I said, I was muscled off to the military, and though I began learning very different things, I was blessed, or for some cursed, to have a father that valued education, and kept on pestering me about completing my High School education. You see, I had only acquired standard 8, which in the modern system would be equivalent to grade 10, which meant that I was two years shy of completing that.
In what was to be my last year at school, I had excelled in Art, coming top of my class (if my memory serves me well). Though I did not fare to well in my other subjects, when I finally got around to picking up my High School education, it was already the early eighties.
Boxing myself into my room, with text books I had acquired here and there, I began to teach myself six primary subjects, so that I could sit for what is the equivalent of Grade 12, and thereby complete a chapter of my life. It worked! I worked, as hard as I knew how.
Biology became the biggest challenge, and the primary reason was because of the gigantic words that I had to memorize, so I took to teaching the plants, trees and creatures in the gardens behind St. George’s Cathedral in Whale Street, Cape Town. I am quite sure they never recovered the colossal burden I placed upon them, but suffice to say I passed, and acquired my Grade 12, in 1982.
Since then, the subject of Biology has become BIG NEWS. I guess we can owe it in part to the obnoxious insults that have been launched in true British salvo fashion at the stone wall of religion, but sadly only scratching the surface of the desperate need to educate us homo-sapiens, and cause us to return to the class room for a serious UPGRADE! Well, thanks to the internet, we are able to do just that…and so without further ado, here is our first of a nine part lecture by Professor Kenneth Miller.
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Another video series by Professor Kenneth Miller: God, Darwin and Design or, “Governor, you ARE a PRIMATE” (now you can laugh) — or in the words of Carolus Linneaus ( a Creationist ) : “God creates, Linneaus arranges” (starts talking about Linneaus at 2:50 minutes)
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