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  • From: Don Bowen <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] In time of drastic change---Eric Hoffer
  • Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 11:56:41 -0700

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






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