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To: cornelis
We build bombs because politicians - i.e. humanities/social sciences - screw up. Name 1 dictator who's primary occupation was a science.
41 posted on 10/30/2002 9:32:43 PM PST by Krafty123
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To: AriOxman
We build bombs because politicians

An important distinction will be useful here. I quote again,

"Education is the study and mastery of a body of knowledge which is formative in character. Training involves learning information which is instrumental or banausic and which serves to solve some immediate problem or accomplish some specific goal. Both training and education are important for a society. Anyone, however, can be trained to do something. (Naturally the complexity and difficulty of the jobs will vary from being a short order cook to being a brain surgeon.) Fewer can profit from education. The goal of education is to produce thoughtful people capable of judging matters of general importance in a disinterested manner, with maturity, with a wealth of general knowledge, and with the courage of the commitment (a condition which is both intellectual and moral) to face facts. A society without trained workers will not get its work done. A society without educated citizens will collapse in times of crisis and will wither away in times of ease and prosperity.

And again, those who build bombs are not exactly the same who say when to use them.

52 posted on 10/30/2002 9:42:22 PM PST by cornelis
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To: AriOxman
We build bombs because politicians - i.e. humanities/social sciences - screw up. Name 1 dictator who's primary occupation was a science.

Um...

Yassir Arafat, or should I say, Abu Amar is a civil engineer.

Kinda ironic really. Civil engineers are supposed to build things, but all Abu Amar does is bring things down. At least the Israeli Army has helped, and brought his compound down, so maybe he can put his skills to use. ;)

81 posted on 10/30/2002 10:46:41 PM PST by Frohickey
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