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Most of those who end up incarcerated, whether guilty or innocent, suffer from an educational and cultural deficiency that is a major cause of the incarceration and will lead to a life of incarceration if the deficiency is not corrected.
The future belongs to those with education.
We live in a society in which the major part of the workforce has jobs that are classified under category of information.
It is brains not brawn that will enable you to have a future that does not contain incarceration.
There is only one way to break the continually reinforced habit of remaining ignorant.
Spend an hour each day alone, in silence, with a book.
An hour, each day, alone with a book.
No walkman, no radio, no television.
Multi-tasking is nonsense.
For that hour, build your brain muscle as you build your LATs and ABs.
Don’t miss a day. Be patient. Learning takes time.
A good place to start is with a word wealth book.
Get a notebook and a decent dictionary in addition to a word wealth book.
Use the notebook and the dictionary to write down the new words and use them in sentences.
Expand the practice when the daily habit becomes part of your life by going to the library and taking out a classic.
Read the classic slowly. New things take time.
Patience is the basis of all learning and success in life.
Read each day until you find 5 new words.
Copy those 5 new words out into your notebook and look them up in your dictionary and use them in a sentence.
A small practice that should teach you some patience and inculcate (look it up) in a you a first possible step out of the prison rut of TV, sleeping too much, and mindless block-out activities.
Discipline, patience, daily practice.
A way out of the rut of incarceration as a lifetime activity.
Written for young offenders re: a request
