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To: bentway who wrote (240258)	12/20/2013 6:00:50 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541743

Wisdom comes from education, from knowledge. There was no time in history, ever, when women had equality with men and were not subjugated until their societies became educated. In all of history the only thing that kept the barbarians at bay was education. The Greek's with their many schools and education conquered the barbarians and kept them at bay; and when Greece and then Rome fell, and illiteracy took hold again, the barbarians returned, and then when we started educating again in the 16/17th century, we started conquering the barbarians again and wisdom returned. They called it the age of enlightenment as it pulled us out of the Dark Ages where there was little education; and it was based on the education of reason and science. You can look, but you will find few great thinkers to compare with probably thousands of ancient Greeks, for hundreds of years after Greece fell and their works were destroyed one way or another. None. I have looked. We lived for 10's of thousands of years as smart animals obeying our instincts and engaging in very little abstract thinking. Alpha males ran the tribes, slavery and war was common and women were routinely subjugated, raped and mistreated. All of the wise people throughout history were educated one way or another. Wisdom involves abstract ideas and ideas can only be formed through knowledge.