- Learn stone carving – the hammer-and-chisel sort – and make a stone carving of my own.
- Learn about different political systems in Australia and Internationally.
- Learn carpentry.
- Read the holy books for ever major religion, including:
- Christianity – The Bible
Done in 1983! Our class studied Christianity that year, and read the whole bible while we did it. It was a thick leather-bound family bible our teacher brought in, and in it the name ‘Rebecca’ was spelled ‘Rebekah’. I thought it was so pretty I changed my own name from ‘Rebecca’ to ‘Rebekah’ and used it (or the shortened version ‘Bek’) until 2003!
- Judaism
- Islam
- Buddhism
- Christianity – The Bible
- Read the entire Encyclopedia Brittanica, or at least large parts thereof.
- Read every book, fiction and non-fiction, written by:
- Asimov
- Heinlein
- Read biographies of major scientists, for example:
- Einstein
- Hawking
- Newton
- Eddison
- Galileo
- Da Vinci
- Learn the maths times tables to 20×20 and squares to 20^2.
- Learn about the stock market and invest in a small way.
Mostly Done in 2000 and onwards! In 2000 I did a bit of studying about this area and felt I knew nearly enough to get started … but was not secure so I put my meager dollars into two managed funds (with different investment philosophies) instead. I’m happy with that for the time being.
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