And yet, nobody advocates abandoning our education system because it’s simply terrible to imagine the alternative – a society full of people, men and women, young and old running around doing things they like, any way they like it.
Terrible for a meddling government to imagine at any rate. My point is we can’t advocate abolishing the education system as we know it because it serves many necessary functions. What we can do is liberate ourselves from our education after graduation.
In a way, Watts says, we all have to liberate ourselves from our own culture, to unlearn the things that block our instincts and rediscover our spontaneity and instinct.
He says: “If liberation means anything, it means that.”
Here are recent media examples of a few other “necessary evils”:
1. Three expert speakers explained the importance and impact of the “buy American” provision on Canadian trade at a Nov. 25 discussion panel hosted by the Sprott International Business Association.
The provision, passed this year, was included in the United States stimulus bill to encourage the purchase of American goods by Americans on a preferred basis. In Canada, 80 per cent of exported goods go to the United States...
Although there are problems with the buy American provision, the United States is trying to fix it, said Eric Benjaminson, minister counsellor for Economic and Science Affairs at the United States Embassy.
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