To: John Jorsett
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship. design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.
Specialization is for insects.
Lazarus Long
15 posted on
09/24/2006 9:52:25 AM PDT by
HuntsvilleTxVeteran
("Remember the Alamo, Goliad and WACO, It is Time for a new San Jacinto")
To: HuntsvilleTxVeteran
'A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship. design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.
Shhh! Don't give the federal education bureaucrats any more ideas for the high school curriculum.
To: HuntsvilleTxVeteran
"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship. design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly."
Someone's been watching me for a week again? Well not the last part.
41 posted on
09/24/2006 10:26:49 AM PDT by
HereInTheHeartland
(Never bring a knife to a gun fight, or a Democrat to do serious work...)
To: HuntsvilleTxVeteran
Adam Smith would strongly disagree.
To: HuntsvilleTxVeteran
"...Specialization is for insects."
I've posted that entire quotation in several of my classrooms. I love it!
43 posted on
09/24/2006 10:32:00 AM PDT by
Old Student
(We have a name for the people who think indiscriminate killing is fine. They're called "The Bad Guys)
To: HuntsvilleTxVeteran
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship. design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.
Specialization is for insects.
Well, I ain't died gallantly (yet.)
Haven't butchered a hog - though I did see one castrated. that close enough?
Guess I still hafta learn that one.
69 posted on
09/24/2006 12:00:14 PM PDT by
Robert A Cook PE
(I can only donate monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
To: HuntsvilleTxVeteran
A human being should be able to yaddayaddayadda ....
Lazarus Long was a fictional character in the writings of one Robert Heinlein. I've often wondered how many of those things RAH could do, and of those that he could do, how many he could do well. Unfortunately, I only talked to him once and didn't think to ask ...
90 posted on
09/25/2006 6:30:14 AM PDT by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
To: HuntsvilleTxVeteran
Specialization is for insects. Jose Ortega y Gasset concurs, see chapter 12 of Revolt of the Masses, "The Barbarism of 'Specialization'"
101 posted on
09/26/2006 12:14:25 AM PDT by
KayEyeDoubleDee
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