<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">but a</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">civilisation doesn't want their children to become revolutionaries and</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">upset the current power structures.  </span><font color="#888888" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">BillK</font><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><font color="#888888" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font color="#888888" style="font-size:small" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><b>Yep  - and that's why we sanitize our history books to show that we are the good guys.  Which is difficult given the stupid wars we started in the 20th century, which IS indoctrination and propaganda.   bill</b></font></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 8:58 AM BillK via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Tue, 15 Dec 2020 at 14:18, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat<br>
<<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Theme of Spike's post about online education: teachers will become dinosaurs.  Teachers are not necessary for learning.<br>
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> I think there are quite a few assumptions in those words above. I'll probably need help in airing them out.  More coffee, please?<br>
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> bill w<br>
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Only if you consider 'learning' to be something abstract.  For all<br>
civilisations, teachers are needed to create productive (compliant?)<br>
members of that civ. Call it indoctrination, if you like, but a<br>
civilisation doesn't want their children to become revolutionaries and<br>
upset the current power structures.<br>
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BillK<br>
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