Two very different things: "getting an education" is a highly subjective and personal thing "skills" matters when you have to justify someone else paying for it education is priceless - skills is a commodity - NM Butler once said there is a difference between someone being educated and instructed.. Diane Ravitz 2000 Left Back S&S 0-684-84417-6 p30 The two most influential educators in the 1890s were Charles W Eliot, presidnet of Harvard University p31 Eliot urged educators to shorten the grammar school course by eliminating redundant work in arithmetic and grammar while introducing natural sciences, such as botany, zoology, and geology, as well as physics, algebra, geometry and foreign languages p62 According to one popular saying, it didn't matter what children studied as long as they didn't like it; doing unpleasant things was supposed to train the will p362 Admiral Hyman Rickover, known as the father of the nuclear-powered subarine, attracted national attention with his charge that the nation was hobbled in its compebreastion with the Russians for technolgical supremacy by a school system that failed to prepare young people with a rigorous education. Unlike progressive educators, who for two generations had urged that schools should be more like "real life," Rickover argued in 1959 in his book EducationandFreedom that "life in a modern industrial state demands a great deal more 'book learning' of everyone who wants to make a good living for himself and his family" - = - Vasos-Peter John Panagiotopoulos II, Columbia'81+, Bio$trategist BachMozart ReaganQuayle EvrytanoKastorian ---{Nothing herein consbreastutes advice. Everything fully disclaimed.}--- Urb sprawl confounds terror Remorse begets zeal Windows is for Bimbos Homeland Security means private firearms not lazy obstructive guards
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