Honor Student - Russell, Michael
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hon-or stu-dent [n, obs] one who successfully resists an educational system's effort to eradicate independent thought; SEE TROUBLEMAKER, REBEL, UNPERSON, OUTLAW 2020 will not be remembered as the year American public education achieved its true goal - the creation of a citizenry unable to think or live independently - but it should be. While well-intentioned theorists have for decades been recommending policy and ballot-box solutions to political threats, America's public-school progeny were quietly being trained in the background to render such bandages irrelevant. Political systems are a…mehr

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hon-or stu-dent [n, obs] one who successfully resists an educational system's effort to eradicate independent thought; SEE TROUBLEMAKER, REBEL, UNPERSON, OUTLAW 2020 will not be remembered as the year American public education achieved its true goal - the creation of a citizenry unable to think or live independently - but it should be. While well-intentioned theorists have for decades been recommending policy and ballot-box solutions to political threats, America's public-school progeny were quietly being trained in the background to render such bandages irrelevant. Political systems are a product of prevailing philosophy, which is a product of individual thinking, which is a product of how individuals have been taught to think. Political officialdom results from the education that made it possible and no power on earth - no patriotic slogan, no congressional bill or executive order, no "most important ever" election - can alter that truth. Education is the wellspring from which a nation ascends - or the quagmire into which it sinks. Through the lens of fiction, Honor Student proposed in 1989 that America's future could be salvaged from within its educational system by students whose not-yet-subservient minds still functioned autonomously. Today, at so late a stage in freedom's decline, salvation from within is likely America's - and therefore the world's - sole remaining alternative to a totalitarian Second Dark Age.
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Michael Russell was inspired by an exuberant mentor in high school to pursue writing and teaching as a dual career, but uninspiring university classes were interrupted by a higher calling. His passion for creative mind-body integration led in his youth to professional freestyle skiing, where he won three world cups in the ballet event, and then to merging sport and art in the founding of SnowDance, a first-of-its-kind theatrical dance company on skis. With a life-long dedication to achieving excellence in every quest he has been a business manager, photographer, U.S. Freestyle Ski Team captain, logger, musician, stage actor, bartender, teacher, mechanic, motorcoach operator, inventor, builder, and, throughout, an unwavering advocate for individual rights.He wrote the young-adult novel Honor Student in 1989 and a second edition thirty years later, Once Upon a Time on a Bicycle in 2018, Winterdanse: The Misplaced Art of Snow Ballet in 2022 (recipient of the International Skiing History Association's Ullr Book Award), and The Unfounding of America in 2024. He resides off-grid in a secluded mountain range with his wife, German shepherds, and wild-animal neighbors. He is not on social media.