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2006-06-26 Britain

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Posted by lotp 2006-06-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Education beyond one's natural ability is crippling.

Posted by gromgoru 2006-06-26 00:27|| 2006-06-26 00:27|| Front Page Top

#2 There is another tack on that. The article is somewhat generalizing and I would contend that flexibility, or rather a persistent ability to learn 'new tricks', does not equate immaturity. The problem may be that the educational system produces moral liliputans by means of deconstructions and moral equivalencies. The result is a person that may have a mirage of self-esteem, but cannot have self-respect.

Posted by twobyfour 2006-06-26 02:54|| 2006-06-26 02:54|| Front Page Top

#3 Perhaps this "psychological neoteny" was a useful thing in the industrial era, but in the information age it appears that its negatives far outweigh the positives.

Posted by no mo uro 2006-06-26 06:22|| 2006-06-26 06:22|| Front Page Top

#4 Neoteny is what happens when Wild animals are tamed and become pets.

Dogs are permanent wolf puppies.

Most people are now state pets.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2006-06-26 06:45|| 2006-06-26 06:45|| Front Page Top

#5 Ouch - just my thought too, Bright Pebbles.

Posted by lotp 2006-06-26 08:32|| 2006-06-26 08:32|| Front Page Top

#6 Gromgoru,

"Education beyond one's natural ability is crippling."

Education and promotion beyond one's natural ability is fatal.

Posted by usmc6743 2006-06-26 12:13|| 2006-06-26 12:13|| Front Page Top

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