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Re: I am NOT going to buy a car.

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From: Space Ace
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 00:00
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hopefully that will shut him up
..Ace
Jon-o Addleman wrote in message <36b22546.27302153@news.mcgill.ca>...
>Once upon a  Fri, 29 Jan 1999 07:04:26 GMT,
>hugs@radiotelephone.net.PAS_DE_PUBLICITE (Huggy) wrote:
>
>>I do have education.   I do more than many others do.   But I study
>>everything by myself.   But our society doesn't accept that.   I have
>>to have a paper.   Galileo Galilei didn't have a paper.  Eistein
>>didn't have a paper.   Bill Gates does not have a paper.
>
>What if I told you that half the stuff I learn COULD NOT be learned
>another way? Example - this morning, a baroque dancer demonstrated
>french dance forms. CHances are had I not been studying music in a
>university, I would never have seen that in North America. The same
>goes for most of my classes - sure, there's some stuff that I could
>learn from books, and I do. But there's also the experience of being
>with other people learning the same material. There's a lot more to it
>than just a 'paper' which frankly, I don't care much about either. But
>there's a lot to be learned in a good environment that can't be found
>easily outside of it.
>--
>
>Jon-o Addleman
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From: "Space Ace" <lake@total.net>
Subject: Re: I am NOT going to buy a car.
Date: 1999/01/29
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