OT: Purdue/PSU, was [rescue] ss2 under load

[Kris Kirby]

On Fri, 15 Feb 2002, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
> Tom Paine's book, "Common Sense" sold half a million copies when the
> total population of the USA was less than 6 million.  That is
> equivalent to selling 20 million copies of a book in the USA given
> today's population.

*mumble-mumble*home-schooling, led by reading from the Bible as a
curiculum*mumble-mumble*.

Christianity has some good concepts -- "farm boys" of 40 and 60 years ago
are perfect models of what The Right Way is, if you haven't got an
education. Working hard, being nice, living right.

Most people I see professing it today are outright hypocrites -- but
that's a different rant.

> Read up on the actual history of American education and you will find
> that it is based on the Prussian model - the same model that led
> Germany to the formation of the Third Reich.  Not good.

George Carling on School Uniforms:

"I remember seeing films *years ago* about school uniforms. It was a
little hard to understand though because *they were in German*."

> Then why subsidize lackluster students?

<bleeding heart> Because *everyone* has a *right* to a great education.
</bleeding heart>

Hey, I went to college, I learned what money buys. Rights, schmites. Get a
job.

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