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In our dreams, we have limitless resources and the people yield themselves with perfect docility to our molding hands. The present education conventions fade from their minds, and unhampered by tradition, we work our own good will upon a grateful and responsive rural folk. We shall not try to make these people or any of their children into philosophers or men of learning, or men of science. We have not to raise up from among them authors, editors, poets or men of letters. We shall not search for embryo great artists, painters, musicians nor lawyers, doctors, preachers, politicians, statesmen, of whom we have an ample supply…The task we set before ourselves is very simple as well as a very beautiful one, to train these people as we find them to a perfectly ideal life just where they are. So we will organize our children and teach them to do in a perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way, in the homes, in the shops and on the farm
Metaphysique
reply to post by tadaman
Denial is not a river in Aegypt.
just so you know.
tadaman
reply to post by TDawgRex
Think about this logically. The UK isn't full of dumb people either. You don't get the standing the UK has by being full of dumb people.
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beezzer
All kidding aside, while education can be measured and quantified to a degree. . .
Wisdom can't.
Advantage
Im quite pleased with these results. Let them make headlines screaming how ignorant or stupid or uneducated we are.
The enemy underestimating our capabilities is our tactical advantage.
So sayeth Advantage
**cue supervillain music**
WhiteAlice
Advantage
Im quite pleased with these results. Let them make headlines screaming how ignorant or stupid or uneducated we are.
The enemy underestimating our capabilities is our tactical advantage.
So sayeth Advantage
**cue supervillain music**
As far as I recall, the number one way in assuring that one is the best at something is through the acknowledgment of one's faults and addressing them appropriately and adequately to correct those flaws.
Ignoring them, on the other hand, never solves anything.