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Meaningful Work

cal652 Wrote: May 29, 2012 1:44 PM
Stop taxpayer subsidies for hobby educations, coursework that ends with 'studies'. If it doesn't lead to a career path, pay for it yourself.

"Education" is a word that covers a lot of very different things, from vital, life-saving medical skills to frivolous courses to absolutely counterproductive courses that fill people with a sense of grievance and entitlement, without giving them either the skills to earn a living or a realistic understanding of the world required for a citizen in a free society.

The lack of realism among many highly educated people has been demonstrated in many ways.

When I saw signs in Yellowstone National Park warning visitors not to get too close to a buffalo, I realized that this was a...

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