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From: Catrike Ryder <Soloman@old.bikers.org>
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Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2025 12:27:15 -0400
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On Mon, 17 Mar 2025 12:07:11 -0400, Frank Krygowski
<frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

>On 3/17/2025 10:30 AM, AMuzi wrote:
>> On 3/16/2025 10:01 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
>>> On 3/16/2025 4:28 PM, Catrike Ryder wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Education isn't an accomplishment, it's a tool.
>>>
>>> It's both. Education can't be simply given to a person. It can be 
>>> greatly helped by a competent teacher, but the person still has to 
>>> work to achieve it. Doing that successfully is an accomplishment.
>>>
>>> What's odd is that this discussion group has a few denizens who think 
>>> they can accomplish just as much without that tool.
>>>
>>> In modern parlance, they actually are the tools.
>>>
>> 
>> I don't think it's binary or Manichean.  That is, both or all can be 
>> true in different examples.
>> 
>> Examples abound of both autodidacts with gaping holes in their 
>> repertoire (me) and others who accomplished much from the same 
>> background (Franklin).
>
>Benjamin Franklin was brilliant. It's been pointed out that his science 
>accomplishments alone would have won Nobel Prizes had they existed.
>
>But any modern American is a fool if he says "Franklin was great and he 
>learned it all himself. So I don't need no schooling."

Many people aren't capable of learning by themselves, and some people
think it's enough to know what they've been taught. 

--
C'est bon
Soloman