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We’ve all heard ideas like the one being expressed here, though this one sounds extreme.  Jail sentence?  Education is exclusively an exercise in pounding in bad habits?

What’s the outcome for students in the very worst of our schools that make no attempt whatsoever to help its pupils learn to think critically?  Well, their kids learn to:

  • Read and write
  • Do math, at least through algebra
  • Understand some level of history and geography
  • Make friends and get along with others
  • Establish independence from the parents
  • Gain the qualifications for employment

What’s the alternative? Illiteracy? Social isolation? Child labor? Poverty?  Neurotic sloth? Being a burden on society?

Is it a coincidence that the countries with the best educated children are the happiest, sanest and most productive nations on the planet?

Is School a Jail Sentence?

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Summarizing Trump

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To the reader who sent me this, I remind him of war, various forms of criminality including pardons for cash, treason, and corruption, inflation derived from ludicrous economic policies, racism, educational decline, world ridicule, and environmental collapse.

Outside of all that, I’d say you’ve hit the nail on the head.

I’d also add that “the jig is up,” as they used to say.  There are far too few stupid assholes left in this nation to provide any meaningful levels of support to Trump at this point to save him from removal from office and criminal prosecution.

Summarizing Trump

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Abolishing War

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As a human civilization, we’ve been talking about subject for a very long time–to no avail.

Most people who consider this idea belief the problem is greed.  In fact, Socrates said, “All wars are about money.”

Abolishing War

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From Voltaire

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I’m sure what Voltaire says here is true, but what’s the value in “raising oneself above the ideas of the time.”

Right now, human civilization is tottering on the brink of world fascism and environmental collapse.  We need real solutions to precisely these issues.

From Voltaire

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