Waterloo

‘. . .In Iran, people learned to swim on their own, if they learned at all.’

This is what I think a lot of places are like, you learn special skills on your own or just don’t bother to learn at all because they don’t feel that certain skills are important.  But here in America we learn all kinds of special skills like swimming because we can afford to teach or pay to have someone teach your kids to swim. 

‘. . .My father, an engineer, had an entirely logical approach to teaching his students to swim.’

My dad isn’t an engineer but he will always be the guy who has a logical explanation for anything.  Sometimes I might make a statement as a joke and he will come back with something smart and start with, ‘That would never happen because . . .’.