Education is bad; training is worse. Both say one sort of person is better than another. Neither believes that learning is possible without them; neither remembers…

Both are based on intellectual inequality: the poor of mind or pocket, the younger cannot possibly have sufficient intelligence. We will give it to them. We will develop it in them. We know how; they cannot. Training is based upon these precepts sometimes explicitly; education is more genteel and does not like to admit common heritage. Education is bad; training is worse. Both say one sort of person is better than another. Neither believes that learning is possible without them; neither remembers that learning is how they got knowledge.

:- Doug.

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