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     6 years ago 

    Put it this way. The quality of a person can be determined by how he relates to three critical verbs: Be, Do, and Have. The classical liberal arts show you how to “be” – they help form your essence, your character, your will. The mechanical arts show you how to “do”; they are important, but really are just acquired skills. As a consequence of what you are, and what you can do, you “have” – acquire goods and money and reputation.

    But it seems pretty clear that most people have the sequence totally backward. They want the “have” part, the material goods, but they don’t understand it flows as a consequence of being something and having the ability to do something. Having things is trivial. It’s why trailer park trash will win a million-dollar lottery and wind up back on the dole a year later.

    I fear that most of what kids get today, whether in grade school, high school, college, or post-grad, is not education. It’s training.

    That interview was very good. Thanks for the recommendation.

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     6 years ago 

    The website had many great interviews like that. Check it out.

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     6 years ago 

    Surely I'll take a look.

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