Posted on 11/05/2007 9:56:46 PM PST by goldstategop
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Psalm 14:1 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Job 28:28 And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the LORD, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.
Psalm 111:10 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do his commandments: his praise endureth for ever.
Proverbs 1:7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Proverbs 9:10 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.
Proverbs 15:33 The fear of the LORD is the instruction of wisdom; and before honour is humility.
A degree is no guarantor of success.
The most profoundly stupid and abysmally ignorant utterances that have ever graced my ears have dripped from the educated lips of PhDs. Mark it true.
I do not think that they mean “education” as much as they mean indoctrination. Education is supposed to be about learning the facts or basics not about thinking like someone or something else would want you to think.
If you are “educatated” you think like they do, if not, well...
Hang out with any of the highly educated research elite (MIT Media Labs, IBM’s Watson Research center, Sandia, Argonne Labs, Europe’s CERN, etc.) and you rapidly find out that being smart doesn’t correlate with being intelligent. As pointed out in the article, these types embrace some pretty silly beliefs. Try getting them to understand Profit & Loss economics, or how enormous success as a Rock-star avatar or business tycoon in SecondLife isn’t a real life experience. or that no matter how good the government models the economy - a government controlled economy cannot drive a thriving and robust economy - it’s pathetic.
Good.
But it is even worse than that: Sen. Dodd shows by his comment that it is ideological purity which is paramount. By comparison, a totally pragmatic person is more moral, because Dodd is not really even focussing on solutions, but only an attitude or pose.
We laugh at North Korea, which under the Kims values ideology over everything, even over feeding the population. The Democratic Party is really not so far away from this stance. For example, for them it is more important to take the politically correct posture on “civil liberties” than to protect the country effectively again mortal threats.
I call this “induced insanity.” It is not clinical insanity (which has an excuse), but intentional, systematic, cultivated lunacy, requiring years of indoctrination and possibly hours and hours of therapy to achieve. Dodd seems to have reached that state, the nirvana of liberalism.
What education are they talking about? There is a reason why High Schools are called “drop-out factories.” Even a 16-year old kid knows what garbage is when he sees it.
I used to say
“Unlike many prople with a degree, I have an education”....gets ‘em every time.
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Book learning doesn’t teach you how to use it.
There’s a difference between knowledge and wisdom.
By "education", liberals usually mean re-education into their beliefs.
(Similarly, Dems almost invariably mean themselves whenever they say "the American people". Try mentally substituting it sometime... it becomes far clearer that they're being honest... just incredibly euphemistic. Orwellian double-speak is alove and well.)
I'm not sure if it's a universal belief, but the belief that education solves all problems has been a general belief of Americans for the history of this country, and led to the formation of public schools to begin with.
So far as values go, my personal belief is that the family is much more influential, but that doesn't stop people from blaming the schools for delinquency, etc., or feeling that schools should solve similar problems.
A better way to state is is School is not the answer to every problem. The equating of school with education is part of the problem.
“Book learning doesnt teach you how to use it.”
Especially if the book in question is a school book.
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