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To: koan who wrote (247572)	3/19/2014 11:06:44 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 542043

Schools share a common heritage and both teach dogma - sit in rows and do the same thing so you can become an interchangeable part and repeat the standard answer to a question. Do what we say, when we say it, and how we say it (in preparation for industry)... the institutions of education have not had a major makeover in more than 70 years and while the workplace is more collaborative, education is still about taking tests. Almost no other sector has evolved so little, except religion. The way we use math has changed. The way we use physics has changed. The way we teach has not really changed. There are exceptions known personally to me. But, my wife aside, most people do the things they do the same as they did last century. I prefer academic dogma more over religious dogma, but the churches I went two were Presbyterian and our synod was not the same as other synods with heavier agendas. Two pulpits - one for the word of the Bible (big scarf on the podium but with the verses short and spoken neutrally) and another for the sermon (with a little scarf but the talk lasting much longer and full of examples of virtue). It was innocuous for what it was. I got more out of my afternoons in the library in undirected learning than from any hour in school or church, though.

To: koan who wrote (247572)	3/19/2014 11:34:03 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542043

RE: thinking people that finally fixed that prolem, not any churches I don't think that is accurate. en.wikipedia.org [edit] especially this. You can't work for God if you are working for someone else all the time, 24 / 7. The German-Dutch settlers were unaccustomed to slaves, although from the shortage of labor they understood why their British neighbors relied on slaves for prosperity. Slaves and indentured servants were a valuable asset for a farmer because they were not paid. Yet the German-Dutch settlers refused to buy slaves themselves and quickly saw the contradiction in the slave trade and in farmers who forced people to work. Although in their native Germany and Holland the Krefelders had been persecuted because of their beliefs, only people who had been convicted of a crime could be forced to work in servitude. In what turned out to be a revolutionary leap of insight, the Germantowners saw a fundamental similarity between the right to be free from persecution on account of their beliefs and the right to be free from being forced to work against their will.