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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).

-- 
Andrew Muzi
am@yellowjersey.org
Open every day since 1 April, 1971