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Van Snyder's avatar

I wrote this on my facebook page several months ago:

The purpose of the educational establishment:

1. Pre-school: Prepare for Kindergarten

2. Kindergarten: Prepare for elementary school

3. Elementary school: Prepare for middle school

4. Middle school: Prepare for high school

5. High school: Prepare for college

6. College: Prepare for grad school -- or NFL

7. Grad school: Prepare to be a professor

Why is the entire educational establishment aimed at only about 0.01% of the population? And why does it utterly fail for the other 99.99%?

"Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement."

-- Mark Twain

My older brother had quite an influence on me as I was growing up. He told me "Character is doing the right thing when nobody is watching."

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garret seinen's avatar

As you say, scientific inquiry is a method. It’s not exclusively reserved for “scientists” but rather is properly insisting on full context and purging of contradictions in all that we think about. What can be found in many people that hold scientific certifications is they specialize narrowly and lack broad general knowledge.

And one of my guiding principles is, infallibility is not a human attribute.

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