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Old 03-17-2010, 10:46 PM   #27 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Iconoclast View Post
What that "angry young nerd" does not know is that schools are not "dumbed down."
they are, according to someone who should know, charlotte izerbyt ! refer to her book "the dumbing down of america"

Originally Posted by Iconoclast View Post
Schools, for cost reasons, simply cater for the majority and the majority are not genetically capable of anything greater than foraging, fighting and fornicating. For 80% of students, the curriculum is "pearls before swine." The other 20% is 10% candidates for a bullet and 10% for running society.
Humans are drugged , traumatised ,brainwashed and virtually imprisoned in these mind destroying indoctrination centres , yet you want to blame them !?
That's like chopping off a leg of a dog , then chastising it for not moving fast enough .

Originally Posted by Iconoclast View Post
I would like to see that boy get on a plane piloted by someone who graduated from the "school of hard knocks" rather than XYZ High School.
an erroneous comparison, a strawman, and hyperbolic.
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