{"id":11336,"date":"2013-09-18T17:58:13","date_gmt":"2013-09-18T17:58:13","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-09-18T17:58:13","modified_gmt":"2013-09-18T17:58:13","slug":"hard_work_and_jaden_smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/09\/18\/hard_work_and_jaden_smith\/","title":{"rendered":"Hard Work and Jaden Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: Okay, we\u2019re gonna try going to the phones now with our rebooted, reconstituted, flushed phone system, and we\u2019re gonna start in Glasgow, Kentucky, or maybe it\u2019s pronounced Glasgow. This is Bill, great to have you, sir. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. It is not honor to talk to you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you very much, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: You mentioned earlier that liberals hate people that work hard<\/a>, and I honestly I love it when you say things like that because that is the utter complete truth. But my point —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Can I stop you there for just a second?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know what\u2019s strange? You say you love hearing me say that because it\u2019s the truth, but there\u2019s another aspect. It\u2019s \u2019cause it\u2019s rare.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s so rare, that you like having somebody say it. It used to be common! It was the ordinary, common, accepted way. Now, when somebody says it, you\u2019re sort of happy because you know it\u2019s gone by the wayside. That\u2019s not good, when it\u2019s remarkable that somebody says hard work takes you somewhere. <\/a><\/p>\n

CALLER: That is right. <\/p>\n

RUSH: That is devastating. Anyway, continue.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I was born in the late eighties, and my parents say that all the time, but my dad would love to hear it. He\u2019d love to hear this conversation for one, but my only point was that it never hurts to be forced into hard work, and that is the greatest defense against liberalism, in my opinion, is hard work, because they cannot compete with that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You\u2019re right. It leads to self-reliance, and that\u2019s the worst thing for them. It\u2019s exactly right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, that\u2019s my only point. I appreciate you taking my call.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, now, wait a second.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s not your only point. I know \u2019cause it says up there that you wanted to talk about Will Smith\u2019s kid.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, that\u2019s true. I figured out I wouldn\u2019t be able to say it very clearly, but Jaden Smith tweeted that —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait a minute. Why did you think you wouldn\u2019t be able to say it? It\u2019s up there. I\u2019m expecting you to say it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay. Well, good. Good. Jaden Smith tweeted that he thought that younger people should drop out of school, and of course he got lambasted for that by everyone, but — and I\u2019m sure he didn\u2019t say it for the right reason, he probably didn\u2019t, but the liberals despise the thought of people dropping out of school, but for good reason. Dropping out of school could be the best decision anybody could make because you\u2019re forced into hard work.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It depends on when you drop out of school.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, doctor.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, I understand that Will Smith\u2019s kid said the best thing for kids is to drop out of school. Do you know his reason? Did you hear that? Do you know what it is?<\/p>\n

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CALLER: No. All I heard is a bunch of liberals are very angry at him, of course, but I can\u2019t imagine it being a good reason because their excuse for him is that he\u2019s a rich kid and doesn\u2019t know what hard work is.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, wait a second. Wait just a second. I\u2019m not sure about that. My guess is, I think his dad probably does work pretty hard. You know, the jobs those people do, acting, the stars, I mean, they\u2019ve got a lot of things taken care of, but it is not easy. It\u2019s a lot of time. It\u2019s a lot of “hurry up and wait.” It\u2019s really hard to do. It takes a tremendous mental ability. You can tell, if you\u2019re watching an amateur or somebody that doesn\u2019t know what they\u2019re doing.<\/p>\n

You know a great actor, because you don\u2019t know they\u2019re acting. You\u2019re watching who you think they really are. They have the ability to totally become somebody else. That creates the psychological problems that explains them being liberals, but that\u2019s beside the point. Jaden Smith has probably seen his mom and dad work real hard, so that\u2019s why I\u2019m curious why he would say it. I didn\u2019t know he said it. <\/p>\n

CALLER: I hope you\u2019re right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, he could just be trying to get noticed, and making some radical statement as a young kid. All right, here it is. Here it is. He said society would be much more intelligent if people educated themselves, because, “School is the tool to brainwash the youth.” He said it\u2019s, like, formulaic. It\u2019s brainwashing. They don\u2019t teach you anything. Now, in a sense, you know, depending on whether… You need a basic, fundamental education through high school. <\/p>\n

But I think it\u2019s certainly true about college. You know, our society is rooted — still is, since the Great Depression — in the idea that college is the ticket. Without that, you don\u2019t have a chance. A lot of people believe it. It\u2019s also a mark of social achievement as well as intellectual achievement, something parents really want for their kids is to go to college and get a degree. They save up money for it, scrimp and save for it, however they can get it. It\u2019s still very important. <\/p>\n

I understand formal education isn\u2019t for everybody, and for the really advanced, standout students — really capable of learning and already knows what he wants to do and is just chomping at the bit to do it — school can be a drag. But there\u2019s no point in getting out of junior high. I think that makes no sense. You need a fundamental foundation even if what you\u2019re taught is BS. You know, there are all the other aspects to it that are important. But still it\u2019s intriguing. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m gonna print some stuff out from the printer, what he said about this. But basically he tweeted that if everybody in the world dropped out of school, we would have a much more intelligent society. He did this back on September 13th. “People Use (sic) To Ask Me What Do You Wanna Be When You Get Older And I Would Say What A Stupid Question The Real Question Is What Am I Right Now? All The Rules In This World Were Made By Someone No Smarter Than You. So Make Your Own.”<\/p>\n

This is right out of Steve Jobs, by the way, and he probably got it while traveling to India. Who knows. But this, “All The Rules In This World Were Made By Someone No Smarter Than You. So Make Your Own.” We all make the mistake of thinking everybody else is smarter and the formula exists \u2019cause it\u2019s tried and true and proven. “School Is The Tool To Brainwash The Youth. Education Is Rebellion. If Newborn Babies Could Speak They Would Be The Most Intelligent Beings On Planet Earth.”<\/p>\n

Now, that is a bit of an exaggeration, but I understand the point. They haven\u2019t been polluted yet. They haven\u2019t been corrupted. They haven\u2019t been lied to and taught a bunch of pap. Now, don\u2019t misunderstand. I\u2019m not thinking we got a conservative kid here by any stretch. Don\u2019t read that into it. He said, “Everybody Get Off Your Phones And Go Do What You Actually Wanna Do,” and in Jaden Smith\u2019s world, school is an obstacle to doing what you want to do. In my case, it was. I\u2019ll be honest.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, here is something interesting. I did not know this. Jaden Smith is 15 years old, and his sister Willow is 12. Both were homeschooled. Will Smith and his wife, Jada Pinkett, homeschooled their kids, or somebody did. Interesting.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, I want to close the loop on this Will Smith business, this Jaden Smith. Something I did not know, is that Will Smith\u2019s 15-year-old son\u2019s out there tweeting everybody that school is a brainwashing tool and the best thing to do is to get out of it. There is an ABC News story<\/a> that hit yesterday about Jaden Smith.<\/p>\n

It says here he “might be best known as the star of the remake of The Karate Kid and for his lifelong role as the son of Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith, but the 15-year-old is also starring in his own online controversy after sounding off against America\u00c2\u2019s education system, calling school a brainwashing tool.” Now, here\u2019s a 15-year-old kid who\u2019s caused a stir with this. <\/p>\n

Now we, you and me, have thought this for the longest time, but here\u2019s a kid, a student who\u2019s dropped out of it and is homeschooled, which I did not know. “Jaden and his sister, Willow, 12, are both home schooled. Jaden had attended the New Village Leadership Academy, a private school his parents founded in California five years ago, until it closed its doors in June because of lack of funding.<\/line><\/p>\n

“The academy used ‘study-tech,\u2019 a teaching method created by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, something to which Will Smith alluded on Live with Regis and Kelly in 2007. There are ‘powerful educational concepts that we believe in,\u2019 Smith said on the show.” Some of this may be rooted in Scientology. That\u2019s why we spend the time to dig deep here, folks, and get beneath the surface.<\/p>\n

You read something that might sound really, really cool and you find out that there\u2019s something at the root of it that you may not have figured out on it. So here are Jaden tweets that caused all this: “People Use To Ask Me What Do You Wanna Be When You Get Older And I Would Say What A Stupid Question The Real Question Is What Am I Right Now.” “All The Rules In This World Were Made By Someone No Smarter Than You. So Make Your Own.” <\/p>\n

“School Is The Tool To Brainwash The Youth.” “Education Is Rebellion.” “If Newborn Babies Could Speak They Would Be The Most Intelligent Beings On Planet Earth.” “If Everybody In The World Dropped Out Of School We Would Have A Much More Intelligent Society.” “Everybody Get Off Your Phones And Go Do What You Actually Wanna Do.” So those tweets ended up causing a firestorm out there, understandably so. <\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the story from 2007 about Will Smith intending to start his school. “Having immersed himself in educational theories while home-schooling his kids, Will Smith says he and his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, plan to put that knowledge to greater use by teaming with like-minded parents and creating a full school.” Now, this is six years ago. “The institution could launch next year, Smith, 39, said…<\/p>\n

“He didn\u2019t offer details, but said the idea came out of his family\u2019s experience in grouping home-schooled children together. ‘We started home-schooling our children probably six years ago,\u2019 he said. ‘We found about eight or nine other parents that home-school, so we put them together. … There\u2019s just very powerful educational concepts that we believe in, and we feel like “I want to design the system that revolutionizes public education,”‘”<\/p>\n

So he did, using some of the “tenets” of Scientology. Now, the school has gone out of business since for lack of funding, which means there were no customers — at least not enough to pay the freight, however the freight was defined here. (interruption) What? (interruption) Well, no, there wasn\u2019t any government funding. He didn\u2019t get any government money. There\u2019s no way this regime was gonna fund home-school, not even for Will Smith. <\/p>\n

There was no way that was gonna happen. There is no way that this president\u2019s gonna sabotage his school union buddies in that way. So there weren\u2019t any subsidies, and the school didn\u2019t make it, but Will Smith did home-school his kids. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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