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Old 05-13-2019, 09:31 PM   #288 (permalink)
Lisnaholic
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Originally Posted by elphenor View Post
school sucks in that it devolves into a series of dumb hoops to jump through to get a shot at what humans ought to be entitled to from the start anyway
^ That sounds like a very prejudiced description. Why hoops? Why dumb? and what are humans entitled to "from the start"?

If I go to a doctor, I want him to have proved himself competent as he progresses through a series of educational stages, each one designed to build on the previous in such a way that the student can acquire a grasp of an extremely complex body of knowledge. That's achieved by schooling, not by humans being "entitled" to be doctors "from the start".
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