zdls halbert index

They Suck!

Well, so what? What does all this have to do with you, with
marketing, and with making money?

A lot. You see, as a general rule, it is always easier
to do business with and market stuff to people very high on the Halbert Index
(Players) and this is especially true in an economic slump. Why? Simply
because, no matter how bad the economy gets... these people will never succumb
to a "depression mindset." A depression mindset is a sales killer.
People who have it (more than 90% of our population) are running scared and
have totally lost the belief (if they ever had it) they have the
ability to fashion their own futures. They believe their fate is up to the
economy... or... whatever politician gets elected... or... whether or not they
can get a "good enough grade" from some employer or educational
institution. Almost everyone high on the Halbert Index is a reader and
virtually none of them are heavy TV viewers. You see, almost all real
wisdom comes from printed material and the streets; practically never does
even a smidgen of it come from TV broadcasts.

Want to know where else it doesn't come from? Schools!
Basically, our school system teaches people to obey...
not... to think. There are seven principal
lessons taught by the school systems in the United States. They are confusion,
class position, indifference, emotional dependency, intellectual dependency,
provisional self-esteem, and that "no one can hide." This is a
national tragedy. You see, genius is an exceedingly
common human quality, probably natural to most of us... and...

Our School System Works To Inhibit

This Natural Genius Rather Than Release It!

School is jail for children. The school system doesn't
need to be revamped, altered or tinkered with... it needs to be destroyed.
Consider these facts: (A) Our nation ranks at
the bottom of 19 industrial nations in reading, writing and arithmetic.
(B) The world's narcotic economy is based on our consumption of this
commodity. (C) Our teenage suicide rate is the highest in the world. The truth
is, our schools don't really teach anything... except... how to live your life
as a loser.

Doesn't that sound just like the rhetoric you'd expect from a
maverick like me? Well, it's not from me. Everything you've just read about
the school system in America comes from a new book titled, Dumbing Us Down written by John Taylor Gatto. Mr. Gatto is not only
one of the most respected teachers in the world but, he has won numerous
awards including the 1991 award of the New York State...

Teacher Of The Year!

If you've got kids, you'd better read this book. It'll open
your eyes, make you want to puke and, for sure, if you're anywhere near the
top of the Halbert Index, it'll cause you to immedi-ately consider pulling
your kids out of school. Here is what kind of children, according to John
Taylor Gatto, our school system is producing: (1) Children who are indifferent
to the adult world. (2) Children who have almost no curiosity. (3) Children
who are cruel to each other and lack compassion for the misfortunes of others.
(4) Children who have a poor sense of the future. (5) Children who have no
sense of, or interest in, the lessons of the past. (Basically, the exact
moment these kids are in is the boundary of their conscienceness.) (6)
Children who cannot deal with intimacy or candor.