Posted by
glen ropella on
Jan 24, 2014; 9:27pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Live-Q-A-with-Edward-Snowden-Thursday-23rd-January-8pm-GMT-3pm-EST-tp7584887p7584894.html
On 01/24/2014 01:01 PM,
[hidden email] wrote:
> [a wait-for-the-compile rant!]
[a wait-for-my-subconscious-to-churn-something-else response]
> I'm not sure I agree that there is a difference [1] ...
>
> [1] It seems to me most worthwhile things come from curiosity,
> skepticism, and hard work. That's an individual-level property. At
> the end of the day, an education can't put it in you, but it can show
> you people that do have these properties.
Can you commit to the idea that being placed in one context can take you
down entirely different paths than you would have taken in some other
context?
If so, can you also accept the speculation that the large majority of
people are [would be] curious and hard-working as long as they're
provided with an adequate safety net?
If so, then perhaps we can conclude that the _salient_ factor is the
skepticism. I.e. the thing that distinguishes an "educated" person from
a "trained" person is solely that the former are skeptical.
If not... well, I tried. ;-)
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⇒⇐ glen
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