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Old 08-04-2012, 03:26 PM   #832
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Originally Posted by DanaC View Post
What's survival got to do with anything? I was talking about literacy and education. Plenty of people around the world survive just fine without either. Not sure I'd want that life for myself or any child I cared about.
I'm saying, for between 50,000 and 200,000 years, we've been learning from non-professional teachers. If they are as ineffective as you suggest, the species wouldn't have lived long enough to be blessed with modern "education."
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