The purpose of education.
Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2012 6:38 pm
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Nothing that you will learn in the course of your studies will be of the slightest possible use to you in after life, save only this, that if you work hard and intelligently you should be able to detect when a man is talking rot, and that, in my view, is the main, if not the sole, purpose of education. "
—John Alexander Smith, professor of moral philosophy at Oxford, 1914,
Mitt Romney now has James Hassett, "Dow 36,000" James Hasset, not some other smarter one, as his economic adviser.
And that's it.
yrs,
rubato
Nothing that you will learn in the course of your studies will be of the slightest possible use to you in after life, save only this, that if you work hard and intelligently you should be able to detect when a man is talking rot, and that, in my view, is the main, if not the sole, purpose of education. "
—John Alexander Smith, professor of moral philosophy at Oxford, 1914,
Mitt Romney now has James Hassett, "Dow 36,000" James Hasset, not some other smarter one, as his economic adviser.
And that's it.
yrs,
rubato