Path: ...!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: John B. Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech Subject: Re: Higher Education Is Overrated Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2024 20:55:08 +0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 51 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2024 15:55:10 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="61dc4cdf828b5aaedbb9a82ca585b9fd"; logging-data="494593"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+0mxULuPxdLCB08oOmch92k1xqzFxNupU=" User-Agent: ForteAgent/7.10.32.1212 Cancel-Lock: sha1:8jQ7xZ0psibQ8bJzqAN9B49prCA= Bytes: 3230 On Thu, 22 Aug 2024 09:12:49 -0400, Catrike Ryder wrote: >On Thu, 22 Aug 2024 18:42:55 +0700, John B. >wrote: > >>On Thu, 22 Aug 2024 06:04:55 -0400, Catrike Ryder >> wrote: >>> >>>https://hbr.org/2010/07/higher-education-is-highly-ove >> >>The problem is that "higher education" has come to mean "collage >>education" when in fact it should be seen as any advanced knowledge. >> >>A rather vivid example is the English Bowman of the 1300's and 1400s >>were able to win battles against much larger and much better equipped >>French forces.The Battle of Crécy took place on 26 August 1346 between >>an English army of from 7,000 to 15,000 (data was somewhat poor in >>those days) was able to defeat an army of from 20,000 - 30,000 French >>who were equipped with far better equipment. Loses on the English side >>was in the region of 1 for every 13-15 French who were killed. >> >>In the Battle of Agincourt about 100 year later 6,000 to 8,000 English >>took on some 14,000–15,000 French and beat them again with about 600 >>English losses versus 6,000 French losses, and 600 - 2,000 captured. >> >>While the difference in formal education was probably not great, among >>the Gentry, the English had a program to encourage archery and boys >>might start archery training as early as 10 years of age and there was >>a "government program" to manufacture archery supplies, bows and >>arrows. >> >>By the way, for anyone that cares the "English Long Bow" might better >>be called the Welch Long Bow" as it is though it originated in that >>country(s). > >OMG, training 10 year olds to be proficient in weapons designed to >kill people. What's worse, I'll bet that they took those killer >weapons home where they could be shot with them. Blimey! Horrors! I would that the "bows" were semi custom to match the child's strength so undoubtedly they took them home... And even worse, bows are rapid fire devices - 12 arrows a minute. One site says 10 - 15 arrows per minute and a 30 "round magazine" :-) -- Cheers, John B.