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Politics : The Trump Presidency
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To: koan who wrote (50249)1/1/2018 10:16:40 AM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) of 363514
 
How about if everyone is standing up, which is what I advocate.

If everyone is standing at a concert, they are not better off than if everyone is sitting and standing costs them more than does sitting. It's less efficient to stand.

The standing up at a concert is a silly analogy. We are talking about getting educated for crying out loud.

It's only silly if you don't get it. Handling abstraction is a cognitive skill.

Who encourages their kids not to go to college?

You continue to miss the point of the piece, even after I quoted to you the author recommending that individuals go to college. The critical element of his piece is the differentiation between the value of individual education to the individual and the marginal value of mass education to society.

People need to learn to be curious. It comes with intellectual development.

Curiosity is mostly an inherent trait. Rather like motivation, natural curiosity can be stifled or fostered but not instilled.

One of the primary things, if not the primary thing, leading to income inequality is that virtually all of the rich (and people with a college education) make sure their kids go to pre school and college and so they end up the bosses and the poor end up working for them for peanuts.

Sure, but if everyone goes to college like the kids of the rich and educated, how will the bosses and the grunts be determined? There will always be bosses and workers. It's just a question of the admission criteria for each. What criteria do you prefer? Lottery? Might? Payoff? Election? Beauty contest? Height? Heredity?
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