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My wish would be for everyone to have the option of a formal Education, to enable them to think clearly and to use their brain to their own advantage.
I don’t believe in world peace, or freedom from hunger, or happiness for everyone. There is always going to be suffering; it’s an integral part of the human condition.
But a lot of the bad things that happen, happen as a direct result of ignorance. Insufficient knowledge; false assumptions; propaganda; unwarranted credulity. All these things cause people to make bad decisions that end up causing pain to themselves or others.
On the other hand, I guess I’d also be happy with a $5.00 off coupon for a bag of cat food.
ah but therein lies the question, who’s education? Education is designed to make you into a working part of society. It does not necessarily mean any type of enlightenment, its more a of a mold. Remember that Nazi Germany had required education as well. The world I think would have been better without that education.
I like the 5 dollar coupon for cat food better.
I would help but I am just to tired to get out of bed today~
Engaged to a WeaselYep. Went to college for 3 1/2 years to be a teacher and found it’s 85% politics… 😕 That’s why truly good teachers are a rare and special thing.
BiPolarBear wrote:ah but therein lies the question, who’s education? Education is designed to make you into a working part of society. It does not necessarily mean any type of enlightenment, its more a of a mold. Remember that Nazi Germany had required education as well. The world I think would have been better without that education.
I think Dave meant education as in acquiring the skills and knowledge needed for critical thinking and effective analysis, as opposed to indoctrination. 🙂
mimitrek wrote:I think Dave meant education as in acquiring the skills and knowledge needed for critical thinking and effective analysis, as opposed to indoctrination. 🙂
Thank you. Yes, absolutely. (I wish I could express my thoughts that concisely.)
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mimitrek wrote:I think Dave meant education as in acquiring the skills and knowledge needed for critical thinking and effective analysis, as opposed to indoctrination. 🙂
Thank you. Yes, absolutely. (I wish I could express my thoughts that concisely.)
You’re welcome! 😀
I also wish everyone had the opportunity to get that kind of education…
Dragon Master wrote:Greater Basilisk wrote:Only one thing? 😆
That’s a tough one. World peace, in my mind, is an impossibility, even for wishful thinking. I suppose I’d like to go back to the 1860s and give the South the means to defeat the Northerners. That way the States would have stayed away from centralization and this ensuing imperial hegemony. But maybe that would just have prolonged the rise and made for a harder fall.So does that also mean that Slavery would still be legal?? It was the south that wanted the Slaves and the North that did not.
Yes, but from what I have read, slavery was only a small part of the real issues that caused the rift.
Almost everyone had slaves. Its what Indians did to the tribe members they defeated as opposed to killing them and what the Vikings did to people they beat. Its just a part of history.
Not to mention that it still exists now in the Eastern sweat shops. I think slavery is hardly one of the bigger problems out there.
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