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(02-27-2012 04:38 PM)gore goroth Wrote: I find it very funny how the U.S. seemed to survive over 100 years without public education just fine. Explain that one TYT.
And where were we technology wise? Farming oh thats right. I'm not saying schooling is great or whatever. But were a lot better off than we were technology wise.
I would bet that none of the knowlegde and inventions that jump started the push from the agricultural to industrial revolution was ever due to school.
(01-13-2012 10:37 AM)UnschoolShqiponjë Wrote: Mike you deserve an SS medal. Here, be proud:
Congrats for doing something I never had the balls to do.
If you have kids, save them from the bullshit you are forced to go through.
(01-25-2012 05:36 AM)UnschoolShqiponjë Wrote: Balls of steel re-awarded.
(02-07-2012 03:22 PM)flann Wrote: Balls of Tungsten, now.
(02-27-2012 04:38 PM)gore goroth Wrote: I find it very funny how the U.S. seemed to survive over 100 years without public education just fine. Explain that one TYT.
And where were we technology wise? Farming oh thats right. I'm not saying schooling is great or whatever. But were a lot better off than we were technology wise.
I would bet that none of the knowlegde and inventions that jump started the push from the agricultural to industrial revolution was ever due to school.
(02-27-2012 04:38 PM)gore goroth Wrote: I find it very funny how the U.S. seemed to survive over 100 years without public education just fine. Explain that one TYT.
And where were we technology wise? Farming oh thats right. I'm not saying schooling is great or whatever. But were a lot better off than we were technology wise.
I would bet that none of the knowlegde and inventions that jump started the push from the agricultural to industrial revolution was ever due to school.
That's college, not high school. There's a difference.
I think that article was a joke.
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(02-27-2012 04:38 PM)gore goroth Wrote: I find it very funny how the U.S. seemed to survive over 100 years without public education just fine. Explain that one TYT.
And where were we technology wise? Farming oh thats right. I'm not saying schooling is great or whatever. But were a lot better off than we were technology wise.
I would bet that none of the knowlegde and inventions that jump started the push from the agricultural to industrial revolution was ever due to school.
(02-28-2012 01:29 AM)SaintVicious Wrote: They learned their trade from their fathers, I really wish my ancestors were bankers instead of factory workers.
(02-28-2012 01:29 AM)SaintVicious Wrote: They learned their trade from their fathers, I really wish my ancestors were bankers instead of factory workers.
Oh I can make so many Jew jokes right now.
HURR OFFENDE DURR DQEHT82H
Yea that "negative" stereotype that all jews are bankers and doctors so awfullll
02-28-2012 03:51 AM
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(02-27-2012 04:38 PM)gore goroth Wrote: I find it very funny how the U.S. seemed to survive over 100 years without public education just fine. Explain that one TYT.
And where were we technology wise? Farming oh thats right. I'm not saying schooling is great or whatever. But were a lot better off than we were technology wise.
Well of course technology is better now than in the early 1800's. DURRRRRR. Not because of public schooling , but because... I don't know... IT WAS 200 YEARS AGO!!!! That is like saying Russia is better off being a Communist country because they made the first moon landing during Soviet Communism. Technology advances with or without public schooling. Now I would argue that I think we would have even better technology than we have now if public school never existed because schools aid in slowing down our creativity. And its not like things weren't being before American public schooling. The printing press, the cotton gin, mass manufacturing.
02-28-2012 04:13 AM
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(02-27-2012 04:38 PM)gore goroth Wrote: I find it very funny how the U.S. seemed to survive over 100 years without public education just fine. Explain that one TYT.
And where were we technology wise? Farming oh thats right. I'm not saying schooling is great or whatever. But were a lot better off than we were technology wise.
I would bet that none of the knowlegde and inventions that jump started the push from the agricultural to industrial revolution was ever due to school.
It wasn't, the industrial revolution came before public schooling.
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(02-28-2012 01:26 AM)SaintVicious Wrote: And where were we technology wise? Farming oh thats right. I'm not saying schooling is great or whatever. But were a lot better off than we were technology wise.
I would bet that none of the knowlegde and inventions that jump started the push from the agricultural to industrial revolution was ever due to school.
(02-28-2012 01:32 AM)Derchin Wrote: I would bet that none of the knowlegde and inventions that jump started the push from the agricultural to industrial revolution was ever due to school.
It's because these people don't understand that correlation does not prove causation. The sales of ice cream is directly correlated with increase in homicides. That does not mean ice cream is causing more people to kill.
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