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To: elmatador who wrote (65360)	8/14/2010 8:15:54 AM
From: Maurice Winn	2 Recommendations Respond to of 217700

ElM, you are expressing Lamarkian theory. You cannot beat intelligence into somebody. Neither can you beat them into studious application. You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink. You can beat it with a stick, but you can't make it think [other than to watch out for you]. I had a friend who was beaten daily [by father or school]. He ended up in prison for some violent altercation with somebody. I had a thug of a Hungarian history/geography teacher who threatened to cane me if I didn't get in the top 10 of the class. I had been trying to get last in the class [but that was surprisingly difficult while writing something on the exam paper]. My wife's father was beaten until he peed his pants in school but he could never learn the stuff they were trying to force into his head which was unsuited to the task. Noel Orams sat school certificate three times in an attempt to "get educated" [he was a classmate in my early years]. The first time around was ridiculous and he should have left school at age 15 and got some job within his abilities so he could learn to be a success instead of being taught that he was a failure. The main thing to learn from "education" was the callous ignorance of authorities, the stupidity of adults, the pack mentality of the inmates, the cruelty of communities, how to avoid dumb authority, the capriciousness of The Law [in the form of the Supreme Court]. Hidden among the trials and tribulations was some knowledge and understanding worth gathering while passing through. Sprinkled among the teachers were some good ones, remembered fondly. Mqurice