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Sep 13, 2019 06:59:39   #
Tug484
 
slatten49 wrote:
The genius writer and father of American literature, Mark Twain, was not educated beyond elementary school. His expresses cynicism toward the mediocre education system of this time in his quotes about education. He believed that schooling was different from education and learning. He warns us of the hazards of following the education system with blind faith.

"Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education."

"The man who does not read books has no advantage over the man that can not read them."

"There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to 'angel ship.'"

"Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog."

"It is noble to teach oneself, but still nobler to teach others - and less trouble."

"A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way."

"Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others."

"Learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity."

"Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned."

"We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter."

"God made the i***t for practice, and then He made the school board."

"Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it."

"I never let my schooling interfere with my education."

"Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold."

"All schools, all colleges, have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge."

"The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice."

"I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way."

"There are lies, damned lies, and statistics."

"Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable."

"'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read."

"I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know."

"Why shouldn't t***h be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense."

"Many public-school children seem to know only two dates - 1492 and 4th of July, and as a rule, they don't know what happened on either occasion."
The genius writer and father of American literatur... (show quote)



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Sep 13, 2019 07:16:29   #
bggamers Loc: georgia
 
slatten49 wrote:
I can best judge the faculties of the universities from which my grandchildren graduated, Their experiences differ greatly from what many state or write about facilities of higher education. I am very proud of each of them, and pleased with their higher education experiences.


you were lucky and am happy your grandchildren missed this new education bs

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Sep 13, 2019 10:50:03   #
Kazudy
 
ImLogicallyRight wrote:
Yes, that sounds stupid. But your first paragraph indicates that you can be just as stupid,

"Yup, eliminate institutions that teach people how to think and you can well eliminate the liberals that grow from that."

That is what are institutions have become, but they eliminate Conservative thought and speech and teaching, not liberals. They even disallow the ability to think. It is all liberal brainwashing. It is the Conservatives that are already being marginalized and kept from growing in all of these Liberal, C*******t, Socialist factories, creating minds of a robot without even artificial intelligence. Just hard wired Liberal Zombies, unable to come up with an original thought or concept, just following their pre programmed puppet masters in the Democrat Party.
Yes, that sounds stupid. But your first paragraph ... (show quote)


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Sep 13, 2019 10:54:23   #
Kazudy
 
slatten49 wrote:
Not asking or expecting you or Kazudy to agree with it, but did either of you read my earlier posted link:

https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/170828


It’s just more of the same b.s. so what’s your point?

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Sep 13, 2019 13:11:49   #
slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas
 
Kazudy wrote:
It’s just more of the same b.s. so what’s your point?

If you haven't grasped it yet, there is no point in explaining. No criticism intended, as people view matters through different lens/perspectives.

Have a good day, Kazudy.

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Sep 14, 2019 06:26:56   #
Coos Bay Tom Loc: coos bay oregon
 
Rose42 wrote:
No thats not what I’m saying. I learned things in college that aren’t taught in high school. However there is a difference between being taught a sk**l and being taught to think. I’ve worked with many who have higher education - up to PhDs - that were not too bright outside their chosen field.


Learning a sk**l is learning to think or one would be rather un sk**led. Same time I knew a guy who taught mechanics at a high school and took his car to a shop when he needed work done. To that extent I agree with you.

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Sep 14, 2019 06:58:49   #
slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas
 
Rose42 wrote:
No thats not what I’m saying. I learned things in college that aren’t taught in high school. However there is a difference between being taught a sk**l and being taught to think. I’ve worked with many who have higher education - up to PhDs - that were not too bright outside their chosen field.

Paraphrasing Mark Twain, there are none so ignorant as the educated outside their chosen field.

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Sep 14, 2019 09:31:27   #
bggamers Loc: georgia
 
slatten49 wrote:
Paraphrasing Mark Twain, there are none so ignorant as the educated outside their chosen field.


If a person is SMART they get their degree I've always felt that putting a fence around you and never reaching beyond your chosen field was stupid #1 you limit who you feel comfortable with you also limit the people you can have an interesting conversation with (isolation). #2by doing this you limit your growth because you have shut the door on personal growth. An example can you paint? can you play an instrument? can you dance? you would never know because you shut the door to explore all your potential. It's is a proven fact that geniuses that become the very best in their field tend to commit suicide more than those more rounded in their knowledge due to (ISOLATION)

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Sep 14, 2019 10:00:39   #
slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas
 
bggamers wrote:
If a person is SMART they get their degree I've always felt that putting a fence around you and never reaching beyond your chosen field was stupid #1 you limit who you feel comfortable with you also limit the people you can have an interesting conversation with (isolation). #2by doing this you limit your growth because you have shut the door on personal growth. An example can you paint? can you play an instrument? can you dance? you would never know because you shut the door to explore all your potential. It's is a proven fact that geniuses that become the very best in their field tend to commit suicide more than those more rounded in their knowledge due to (ISOLATION)
If a person is SMART they get their degree I've al... (show quote)

A point well-made, my friend.

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Sep 14, 2019 18:37:35   #
Rose42
 
Coos Bay Tom wrote:
Learning a sk**l is learning to think or one would be rather un sk**led. Same time I knew a guy who taught mechanics at a high school and took his car to a shop when he needed work done. To that extent I agree with you.


To a certain degree yes. I've worked with a lot of people with masters and PhDs and it was surprising how they often had trouble thinking outside their chosen fields. Scientists included.

That by no means is everyone and I am a definite believer in furthering one's education

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Sep 14, 2019 23:47:03   #
Coos Bay Tom Loc: coos bay oregon
 
Rose42 wrote:
To a certain degree yes. I've worked with a lot of people with masters and PhDs and it was surprising how they often had trouble thinking outside their chosen fields. Scientists included.

That by no means is everyone and I am a definite believer in furthering one's education


I love you Rose I'm so glad you are not like so many posters with their views on education .Knowledge is power and somebody doesn't want you to have any.

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Sep 16, 2019 08:43:24   #
Rose42
 
Coos Bay Tom wrote:
I love you Rose I'm so glad you are not like so many posters with their views on education .Knowledge is power and somebody doesn't want you to have any.


We need more liberals like you Tom. And parents need to take an active role in the education of their children. Too many don't.

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Sep 18, 2019 00:24:40   #
Coos Bay Tom Loc: coos bay oregon
 
Rose42 wrote:
We need more liberals like you Tom. And parents need to take an active role in the education of their children. Too many don't.


I don't fit the term liberal as it is commonly used. I despise the term actually as it has been turned into a slur. That said thank you but really every body used to take an interest in their childs education no matter how they v**ed.

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Sep 18, 2019 10:16:39   #
Rose42
 
Coos Bay Tom wrote:
I don't fit the term liberal as it is commonly used. I despise the term actually as it has been turned into a slur. That said thank you but really every body used to take an interest in their childs education no matter how they v**ed.


I don’t use the term liberal like most people do. For me its not a dirty word.

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Sep 18, 2019 12:04:10   #
Coos Bay Tom Loc: coos bay oregon
 
Rose42 wrote:
I don’t use the term liberal like most people do. For me its not a dirty word.


Very good. There is something very wrong with a society that is bent on denigrating those who are not like them. It has been getting worse by the day. Why people cannot see through all the hype is beyond me.

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