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Richard, are you saying that I miscited this, thereby changing the meaning of the original, or misapplied the language to the discussion? Either way I would disagree, but just curious.
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Shaw was using sarcasm in that bit of dramatic dialogue and the lines actually do not reflect his view of education - I did not think you were using the quote in the same context.
Were you?
Richard
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“Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)… There are just some kind of men who – who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.” - To Kill A Mockingbird (Atticus Finch)
“Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.” - Robert Heinlein
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