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Even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while… but a fat girl can only smell the sweets
I am observing, I am witnessing the conversation in my discussion group. Great market research! lol. I find out what people don’t know. What people don’t understand.
One of the differences between animals and humans is humans’ arrogance.
When you watch animals, the parents, the elders, teach the young ones all that is teachable. Otherwise their species would die out: there is a lot to know to be safe, to live long enough to create offspring themselves and contribute to the survival of their species.
Humans are attempting to do the same, but never tell their offspring, never told you, that the purpose of education is to know what the generations before yours discovered for themselves, so you can stand on their shoulders and not have to discover all that, again, the hard way.
The context is off… the new context is “you have to”… dutiful, and generations of ignoramuses grow up… go to school because they have to, do homework because they have to, and live life doing mostly have-to things… no fun, no curiosity, no growth… a decline of the species.