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Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.

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She was not an unkind woman, despite a lifetime of being gently dried out on the stove of education, but she was conscientious and a stickler for prop...more

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As humans, we have invented lots of useful kinds of lie. As well as lies-to-children ('as much as they can understand') there are lies-to-bosses ('as ...more

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Progress just means bad things happen faster.