What to do with spare time?

[JeffersonDinedAlone]

Why would anyone care one way or the other what you do with any moment of your time? That is your decision. You possess free will; exercise it as you wish.

[Hotmonkeylovin]

Make Tacos. They are delicious.

[Sam26100]

Great Vid!!

[stevemurphy20]

i think u sud shoot urself queerbag

[drew335533]

Nice critique.

[BeHereNow21]

-Meet women

[horvay]

One should find a central purpose in their life, and then model their life around that. I think you should do everything you can to achieve that goal.

[oohay3378]

Quite the Zaddik you are, Cropper.

[seneca4295]

Oh noes, teh drama...

[DrHughAkston]

"Give it up. The secret you are trying to solve involves something greater-much greater-than the invention of a motor run by atmospheric electricity. There is only one helpful suggestion that I can give you: By the essence and nature of existence, contradictions cannot exist. If you find it inconceivable that an invention of genius should be abandoned among ruins, and that a philosopher should wish to work in a diner-check your premises. You will find one of them is wrong."

Rings truer daily-HA

[FoxHatesMe]

NOOOOOOO!!!! DONT GO TO A SANDWICH SHOP!!!! I want you to be fixing up that pathetic website of urs. Oh and theres no way in hell I'm gonna send u a thousand dollars :-P

[thejobloshow]

Why don't you become a private tutor rather then try to start a home school. You could surely get back into college and get the certifications to be a school teacher with that experience.

[MrCropper]

"You could surely get back into college and get the certifications to be a school teacher "

I'd sooner sell my soul to Immanuel Kant.

[zenguin13]

Have another drink

[NLPNVC]

I know a doctor who needed 50K to start a new school for students who had been kicked out of public schools. When he went to a foundation to ask for the money the first question he was asked was what makes this school different from any other. How would you answer that?

[NLPNVC]

btw he got the money... Cheers.

[thejobloshow]

It creates value in people where none was cultivated prior?

[MrCropper]

"How would you answer that?"

The singular goal of my school is to develop the child's ability to think for himself.

[Nelapidae]

If you find that you ultimately do have to get a job in order to make ends meet, you might consider a nightwatchman position. Usually you'd need only make a few regular rounds as scheduled but for the rest of the shift would be left alone...good for reading/studying. Construction sites, apartments, and malls usually have them. Typically simple work though the pay is pretty low (for the lower risk jobs of course).

oh and I almost forgot...I'll take a #4 with no mayo and a large coke ;-)

[PursuitOfReality]

I think you should be able to study in your spare time.

[PursuitOfReality]

It's nice to see someone putting their role (teacher in your case) ahead of the role of money making. Sadly our corrupt society discourages this.

[MrCropper]

"It's nice to see someone putting their role (teacher in your case) ahead of the role of money making"

I'm taking the longterm view - poverty for now, but later I can write books and essays about my experience opening a private school.

[pairunoyd]

Itd be cool if a tutoring type school or even a private school offered homeschooled students classes. For example, your child could take Russian History for 1.5 hrs 2x / wk and Geometry 1.5 hrs 2x / wk.

Do private schools offer such services? Also, fledgling private-school-wannabes could work toward fulltime regular enrollments with this plan.

Maybe you should look at schooling ideas put forward by entrepreneurs and not just look at your academic beliefs.

Have you looked at any plans?

[pairunoyd]

I'd like to see a supplementary type school. I homeschooled my daughter for several mths. I think theres a lot of people that would like to split homeschooling and private schooling. The kids want to be around their friends more. They also like to vary the curriculum and the teacher. :)

So if someone homeschools because they cant fully afford private schools, they can homeschool part of the time and then let them go to a private school or tutoring school half the time or whatever fraction.

[pairunoyd]

Crop, have you seen a decline in donations since the economic crisis grows? I know I havent been donating, though I'd like too. I had to buy some gold and silver. If things start changing for the good, I plan to donate my small amounts here and there.

Good luck!

[qtronman]

"No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking." ~Voltaire

Voltaire is awesome! :-)

[Kurtyoungblood]

I like Voltaire's last words.

[eventide925]

Anyone can make sandwiches, You have a gift that is not so common.

You love learning for it's own sake.

This needs to be shared with the world.

[8daystillmonday]

Keep teaching, Mr. Cropper.

[Madwolfkiller]

Tacos are good, but teaching kids is better. Teach the kids, Mr. Cropper. Just keep doing what you're doing.

[palkom13]

yes, i agree very much with you.

mr cropper your videos are extremily valuable and you should continue.

[HAWAIIANCAM]

Hey MrCropper, Don't listen to negativism from uneducated people. Those people don't want to be free period. Our government don't want us to learn anything. Please teach us on Youtube. I want to learn new stuff and think for myself. I want to be informed and to be a great critical thinker like you. I am a new fan of yours, and I do like your teachings, Thanks for educating me on ancient Greece. I will be watching part 2 through 5 today. ALoha

[adjohnson916]

You're not a very good salesman, all you've ever proven to be is a self-important, pretentious "objectivist" fundamentalist with decisive message of selfishness preached from the podium of YouTube. I mean congratulations, you listen to Voltaire. We should worship you.

Why should we trust you with our donations when you act so odd and try to put us on a moral crisis guilt trip when somebody suggests you should get a job? How do we know you need it and are using it for school purposes?

[Beethovens7th]

Then don't give him money, it's that simple. I don't see him guilt tripping anybody as you say, I'm not sure where you got that from. Maybe you should pay attention when you watch videos.

[qtronman]

"... moral crisis guilt trip when somebody suggests you should get a job?"

What, you can't take Cropper's social pressure? If he's not a good salesman, as you say, why do you feel the need to make a comment? I'd say you probably envy Cropper, you probably never made anything of yourself like he has.

[zenguin13]

Actually, give up the teaching for two weeks and work in the sandwich shop.

Afer that ammount of time you should know what to do.

Quit teaching altogether would be my guess.

[grantsinmypants2]

"I can't give it up! I can't!" "What?" she whispered. "You." "Why should—" "And everything." "Why should you give it up?" "Dagny! Help me to remain. To refuse. Even though he's right!" She asked evenly, "To refuse what, Francisco?" He did not answer, only pressed his face harder against her. ... He moaned, "It's right, but it's so hard to do! Oh God, it's so hard!"

[DagnySTaggart]

"She rose, paid her bill, and said, "Thank you, Dr. Akston. I will not molest you with tricks or pleas. I will not hire detectives. But I think I should tell you that I will not give up. I must find the inventor of that motor. I will find him."

"Not until the day when he chooses to find you - as he will."

* They just closed the Lennox Foundry - no bailout there, Mr.grantsinmypants2...I'll recommend your name for this years list - circle the month of June on your agenda. *

[RodHullIOnceWasHim]

I'd very much like to see MrCropper teaching... Not sure how you'd do that...

[pairunoyd]

i think you should get tax money

[Beethovens7th]

Yuck.

[pairunoyd]

lol. Im just kidding. I am AGAINST public education. I think Brother Crop is too

[pmccarthy001]

Perhaps we should all be petitioning our government(s) to raise taxes to provide better schooling to ALL the children. You do make a very strong argument about the value of education.

[incrediblemulk42]

Good schooling is NOT a matter of getting more funding for schools. What matter is HOW you teach and government schools will never fix that no matter how much money you throw at it.

[pmccarthy001]

Members of the community DO have a say in what is taught in public schools. As talented as Mr. Cropper is as a teacher, I doubt we have enough people like Mr. Cropper to eliminate the public school system. And although there may be Mr. Cropper's for a few fortunate children, I'd suggest that it's important for us to do all we can for ALL children, including those less fortunate, and don't have a Mr. Cropper available to them. What's more, I'm sure there are some Mr. Cropper's in public schools.

[Beethovens7th]

"I'd suggest that it's important for us to do all we can for ALL children, including those less fortunate"

Well then you should support the privatization of education.

[pmccarthy001]

Yeah, well... I asked for it. I know the political, and socioeconomic sentiments of most of Mr. Cropper's viewers. If I didn't expect responses like this, I certainly should have.

[goldgoblin]

No taco making for Mr. Cropper, although in those over and over again jobs you do tend to do some deep thinking to escape

[Beethovens7th]

Well let's see, do you make a better taco than Hugh Akston's burger at the Akston diner? That burger sounded good....Or maybe this summer if I happen to be driving through Utah (which I might) would you make me an awesome taco?

Haha just kidding. Of course I'd rather you get to spend your spare time philosophizing.

[GirlyVoice]

The question is, how good a sandwich do you make?

[JDizzely]

Mr. Cropper, keep doing exactly what you're doing.

A = A

[Quidtimeam]

As has happened historically, the investment in the talents of man requires some patronage. You people should feel proud that you have enough wealth to sponsor someone like Mr. Cropper rather than question its obvious efficacy.

[pythagoras9]

I like objectivists because they know how to reason properly. I always feel that they are on my side.

[BrianTheMusicMan]

Objectivism works better for sandwiches.

[qtronman]

"Objectivism works better for sandwiches."

Cropper - Ban this sack of shit!

[chris3443]

I think you need to get a partner account with youtube to add a little income. Don't do the sandwich gig, it's a waste of your talent.

[nine9s]

Wasn't Voltaire an Enlightenment thinker?