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Purpose of Education

“Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.” – Proverbs 22:6 There have been various surveys taken about the most important inventions that impacted civilization. These can be hard to rank when you consider indoor plumbing, electricity, the internal combustion engine and […]

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John Livingston

Meritocracy

I am a Thomas Sowell groupie and fanatic. I have read every one of his books, several more than once like “ECONOMICS“. In “DISCRIMINATION AND DISPARITIES,” he points out that many times differences in performance and achievement that are attributed to discrimination and racism are the results of disparities in education or talent, but most […]

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What is an Expert?

I watched with interest today Governor Little’s Press conference in which he declared that we would stay in phase 4 of our mitigation strategy for the next 2 weeks. During the Q&A it was implied that he had surrounded himself with experts, and other voices in the community were being listened to and this caused […]

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