You are never to old to learn

OAKLAND, Calif. – It's never too late to earn your college degree. Just ask 94-year-old Hazel Soares.

The San Leandro woman was one of about 500 students to pick up diplomas Saturday during a commencement ceremony at Mills College, an Oakland liberal arts college for women that also offers coed graduate programs.

"It's taken me quite a long time because I've had a busy life," said Soares. "I'm finally achieving it, and it makes me feel really good."

Soares, who has six children and 40 grandchildren and great-grandchildren, is believed to be the world's second oldest person to graduate from college.

One way to try to prevent education from working

Is to deny that knowledge is both liberal and liberating. Cease questioning! Stop realizing there are more ways than one to find a solution! Stop it!

Because it's been very handy that stupid people obediently follow leaders like sheep....

No WONDER the fundamentalists hate education

And despise the hallowed campuses of higher learning:

The trend is known as the "Great Evacuation," and the statistics are startling to youth ministers.

Studies have shown at least 50 percent — and possibly as much as 85 percent — of kids involved in church groups will abandon their faith during their first year in college.

Gee. Teaching kids to think makes them leave religions that demand thoughtless obedience... how strange.

Just an aside... calling it the 'Great Evacuation' makes it sound as if the elders in the church took fright and had a massive ...ah... accident.