Path: ...!npeer.as286.net!npeer-ng0.as286.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: Catrike Ryder Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech Subject: Re: Higher Education Is Overrated Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2024 18:09:26 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 67 Message-ID: <66dfcjd3dblbe9bv3abfpuo0geb5qeg29g@4ax.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2024 00:09:28 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="e883d16c9ea3261aa65d973bea0e3ccc"; logging-data="634925"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/M+AY+y92TKIXvZuEwyqqgKM2hl3dl/G4=" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:vV081PgGPJHYxzuCi+eTqT+enrQ= Bytes: 4042 On Thu, 22 Aug 2024 14:22:50 -0500, AMuzi wrote: >On 8/22/2024 1:01 PM, Roger Merriman wrote: >> 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. >>> >> That’s rather less knowledge as bows had been known about for hundred if >> not thousands of years but it’s refinement and more importantly tactics, >> with such a bow. >> >> >>> 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. >>> >> Bow men weren’t Gentry but the middle classes which was part of the >> audacity of it! >> >>> 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). >>> >>> >>> >>> >> That’s is the lore but frankly no one knows, it’s likely to have been used >> in both Wales and England note that Welsh means foreigners to the Normans >> which includes the English, or rather the Anglo Saxons and other peoples in >> Britain at that time. >> >> Roger Merriman >> >> > > >No one claimed the Welsh invented bows but the general >familiarity and skill of making and effectively hitting >targets with them, across the entire island generally, >proved effective. > >https://thehistoryjar.com/2015/12/23/unlawful-games-at-christmas/ I bought a Fred Bear "Polar" semi-recurve to hunt with, but backed away when I had a good shot at a nice buck. I had no problem with a gun, which I could quickly take down with a clean shot, but I just couldn't try to put an arrow into that magnificent animal. Most arrow shot animals suffer long and hard before finally going down.