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Turbineguy

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Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Sat Feb 18, 2017, 09:31 PM

Feb 2017

who took a pretty hardcore engineering curriculum.... I agree. The first thing is to get an education. Then, learn a skill. The wonders of a good education are legion. You can converse with anybody. You're connected to the Universe.

They used to call it a "classical education".

Nobody tells kids why they are in school. Why keep it a secret? It's so you can walk out into the World and have some understanding of what's going on. On this Planet and in the Universe.

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CUBAN: Don't go to school for finance liberal arts is the future [View all] applegrove Feb 2017 OP

I can see that GP6971 Feb 2017 #1

As somebody Turbineguy Feb 2017 #2

That was my degree focus, and it was well worth the effort bhikkhu Feb 2017 #3