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.