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I've noticed a fascinating phenomenon in my thirty years of teaching: schools and schooling are increasingly irrelevant to the great enterprises of the planet. No one believes anymore that scientists are trained in science classes or politicians in civics classes or poets in English classes. The truth is that schools don't really teach anything except how to obey orders. This is a great mystery to me because thousands of humane, caring people work in schools as teachers and aides and administrators, but the abstract logic of the institution overwhelms their individual contributions. Although teachers to care and do work very, very hard, the institution is psychopathic -- it has no conscience. It rings a bell and the young man in the middle of writing a poem must close his notebook and move to a different cell where he must memorize that humans and monkeys derive from a common ancestor. ↗
There can be no doubt that the development of a practical method of water disinfection during the last two years marks an epoch in the art of water purification. ↗
#chlorine #disinfection #drinking-water #public-health #the-chlorine-revolution
It is morally appalling for the so called liberators of South Sudan to keep liberating their own people from a war that has already been won. ↗
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. ↗
The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority. ↗
#best #development #few #free #government
