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Everything is morally relative to the LLL--except for Israel and President Bush's Amerika, which are pure evil.

And I'm not so comfortable in blaming leftist professors for the uncurious graduates churned out by the universities. Oh, I don't deny that there's a palpable bias, but it is up to the student to pursue rival viewpoints and self-education. Formal schooling can only achieve so much--it leaves many gaps. It can but whet one's appetitite for learning, and encourage informal study on particular subjects of interest. The people who swallow all the lies and ideologies of the Left do so because they are intellectually lazy. They do not have the constitution to learn on their own.

The leader of men described in this article may have great intelligence, but his complete lack of industry and self-motivation will doom him to a second-tier mind. He will do well in college and law school, and will likely be successful in his legal practice, but he will not attain any lasting fame or accomplish any world-changing feats. He will be but a cog in the machine, a care-taker, a vassal of the truly great individuals. I am of the mind that formal schooling is but a means to blackmail the masses into following a certain line of thought, to groom them in a secondary role of the care-takers of society. The truly great bristle at these constraints, and exist outside the system--they rise above the prosaic existence of the university and achieve everlasting glory through force of personality and the striking originality of thought. That is why all the world-historical figures have been poor-to-mediocre students.

I am of the mind that formal schooling is but a means to blackmail the masses into following a certain line of thought, to groom them in a secondary role of the care-takers of society.

It wasn't always that way. I attended high school and college in the fifties abd they were exactly as leartning institutions should be. Some made good use of them and some didn't. For those who didn't it wasn't due to brainwashing nor discouragement by the schools.

I am of the mind that formal schooling is but a means to blackmail the masses into following a certain line of thought, to groom them in a secondary role of the care-takers of society.

It wasn't always that way. I attended high school and college in the fifties and they were exactly as learning institutions should be. Some made good use of them and some didn't. For those who didn't, their lack of success wasn't due to brainwashing or discouragement by the schools.