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Egalitarian Thug

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11. Learning a vocation is wonderful as well as being necessary, but what they're doing is replacing

Tue Dec 11, 2012, 04:43 PM

Dec 2012

education with training. There is a big difference.

When one's curiosity is nurtured learning becomes an end in itself. Being trained to do nothing but perform a task or function, whether that is carpentry or surgery, reduces a person to a beast to be used up and discarded when it is no longer useful. The person that learns can do anything, the person that is merely trained is limited.

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Indentured servitude 2.0: What we’re up against [View all] HiPointDem Dec 2012 OP

As with any Corporation, as with USA, Incorporated, the citizens AKA employees are blamed and RKP5637 Dec 2012 #1

+1 HiPointDem Dec 2012 #2

Dammit... 99Forever Dec 2012 #4

Du rec. Nt xchrom Dec 2012 #3

They want to do EVERYTHING they can to mold "better" kids, EXCEPT snot Dec 2012 #5

exactly. they don't want to do anything about the real problems, they just want to let the upper HiPointDem Dec 2012 #6

kick HiPointDem Dec 2012 #7

K&R woo me with science Dec 2012 #8

Replace thinking and learning with vocational training. Egalitarian Thug Dec 2012 #9

Please don't knock actual VoTech training. Sirveri Dec 2012 #10

Learning a vocation is wonderful as well as being necessary, but what they're doing is replacing Egalitarian Thug Dec 2012 #11