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Is it possible to teach knowledge without being elistist? [/quote] Yes. Stop assuming that you know everything. Help when help is asked for but do not impose.
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How can children aspire to improve when they their parents disparage universities and higher learning?[/quote]
And back into the soup…
They don’t always disparage universities. Sometimes what they need to learn is not in a University, but in a trade school. Sometimes neither a trade school or a University has what they need to learn. What they do disparage is a green University graduate telling them how to do something that they know is wrong because they already tried it 30 years ago. But the University graduate, flush with a new degree – is certain they know more than the person who has been practicing their trade for over 30 years.
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How is it that people who want to “tell it like it” are so sensitive about being looked down upon? Own your condition and try to change it. Isn’t that what pulling up by the boostraps is?[/quote] Look at my segment above. Why is the display of arrogance, of superiority considered appropriate and ‘telling it like it is’? Acting superior is not telling it like it is, it is closing your ears and acting.
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Livin’, if voters can’t recognize or reject policies that would benefit them, then screw them. Blue collar democrats voted for Reagan who deregulated.[/quote]
NAFTA and deregulation are not the same thing. Don’t mix them. NAFTA was not under Reagan. Bush started, Clinton signed it.
