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To: LS
However, consider the time factor. What about 20 years from today after years of inadequate schooling, overt discrimination and continuing vice addiction? Society can regress.
23 posted on 09/27/2003 11:19:33 AM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS (Further, the statement assumed)
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS
The thing about entrepreneurs is that they are self-starters. The more we learn about education, the more we find it is overblown and overvalued. Absolutely, skills are essential. But the greatest entrepreneurs of all time were illiterate, usually discriminated against, and so on.

The Jews, for example, have a history of being the most discriminated-against group on earth, yet prosper everywhere they go. In Malaysia, the Chinese are specifically discriminated against by law, yet they have higher incomes and wealth than Malays. In Chile, Lebanese control the grocery businesses, and on and on. Whites need to pay attention to what they've been saying to blacks for 100 years---that discrimination, while real, is in the long run not as important as motivation, ideas, and faith in yourself.

As to education, we are seeing now that we have developed an OVER educated society, at least for the jobs that are available and need doing. I teach college, and would say at least half of the kids have no business being in college. Most of them, like one of my former students, would be better served to start a business, THEN come back to school when they have a firm idea as to what they need to make their business better.

26 posted on 09/27/2003 1:43:25 PM PDT by LS
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