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To: average joe who wrote (779277)	4/9/2014 11:45:14 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572553

<< I have found the best education can be found by reading and studying the smartest people on earth. We know who they are. Why read anyone else? How does that not make sense? You need to make your own mental integrations and stand on your own two feet. Socrates warned over 2300 years ago about putting your faith and hope in a political structure. >> Nothing could be further from the truth. Civilization was born out of transferring knowledge from pne person to another. We learn by learning, not by deducing. We don't deduce much, we learn much. We deduce little, we learn everything. So learn from the masters. Not uncle Joe - the plumber :>), or your own imagination. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/w/will_durant.html#OozzuZJAb2e7KZYY.99 Education is the transmission of civilization. Will Durant Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/w/will_durant.html#OozzuZJAb2e7KZYY.99 When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near. Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/w/will_durant.html#OozzuZJAb2e7KZYY.99

To: average joe who wrote (779277)	4/10/2014 12:09:09 AM
From: koan	Respond to of 1572553

<<You need to make your own mental integrations and stand on your own two feet. Socrates warned over 2300 years ago about putting your faith and hope in a political structure. >> I make my onw mental integration of what I learn. I don't follow any political party. I join the one I perceive is the smartest, most compassionate and will help the people form a good society. As mentioned many times. Scientists pick the dem party over the pub party 80% to 6%. I do the same thing for the same reasons. We don't follow, we join forces for good as we see it.