On Feb 5, 2012, at 1:13 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> On Feb 5, 2012, at 1:08 PM, Carrol Cox wrote:
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>> The pain of enduring mandatory training in reading or writing is
>> not limited
>> to the poor but occurs in all levels of society. The rich would be
>> less
>> affected only in that their wealth enables them to say fuck it.
>> That is
>> indeed a great privilege, which I wish to extend to other sectors
>> of the
>> population.
>
> Yeah, and I just read some rant from Noam Chomsky denouncing
> education too. It's hilarious when highly educated intellectuals end
> up sounding like Pink Floyd.
"Besides bread, the most important need of the people is education."-- Georges Danton (inscription on the base of his statue in Place Danton)