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To: goodnesswins
The number of students stays roughly 70, that is not a percentage.

When our Founders were in college there were about 70 students in each college. The colleges then were quite small. They were all trained in the classics. The capstone class was moral philosophy. Roughly half of the Founders went to college. The only degree you could get was a bachelors in philosophy. After that a graduate would either enter the real world, go to divinity school or medical school, or read law.

In fact, the kind of education they received, if you were to study the content, would be equal to getting a PhD in philology today from Harvard University. The only exception is that our Founders were well-versed in moral philosophy. Today's philologists are not schooled in that discipline.

40 posted on 03/02/2019 8:07:39 AM PST by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys)
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To: Slyfox

Thx for info...sad for “students” of today...their degrees in Propaganda are near worthless


49 posted on 03/02/2019 9:18:16 AM PST by goodnesswins (White Privilege EQUALS Self Control & working 50-80 hrs/wk for 40 years!)
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