FASCIST ALERT:
The fascist, of course, being me. Economist.com suggests, as I have for many a year now, that it is precisely the broadening of education to the masses that has all sorts of unintended effects on a country's way of life. Now, of course, I was always a fan of connecting this to art and scholarship; that is, that by making an education easy to get, you reduce the motivation necessary to receive it, and people who are not as familiar with the human condition and human history are bound, in a perversion of Satayana's dictum, to forever say hopelessly boring and unimportant things about it.
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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