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Re: OT More pens (was Re: Phoneme winnowing continues)

From:John Cowan <jcowan@...>
Date:Tuesday, June 10, 2003, 17:07
Stone Gordonssen scripsit:

> And justifiably so. One can creap into the non-quatified dodge, but bottom > line is, I see far too many young people who can barely read and write, and > for whom simple math is impossible.
So there always were. It's just that they used to drop out and get good jobs that didn't require those things. Such jobs barely exist, or when they do exist, barely provide a living wage. -- Knowledge studies others / Wisdom is self-known; John Cowan Muscle masters brothers / Self-mastery is bone; jcowan@reutershealth.com Content need never borrow / Ambition wanders blind; www.ccil.org/~cowan Vitality cleaves to the marrow / Leaving death behind. --Tao 33 (Bynner)