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[Don Bowen <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>]

At 8/29/2004, you wrote:

>   "In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. 
> The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no 
> longer exists." - Eric Hoffer

There examples of this all over time.  In recent years in the South 
Pacific, those natives who managed to learn basic math and language skills 
were chosen to help the occupying US forces administer the islands after 
invasion and the usual total destruction of the island infrastructure and 
economy.  Those who would read and even better write English were given 
even more responsible positions.  In turn those who had those positions 
under US authority tended to keep similar positions afterwards.  Look at 
the names in political and economic positions of control and those same 
family names run everything.

Don Bowen
Awl Knotted Up Woodworking
Valley Center, CA             http://www.braingarage.com