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Europa fuer Immer has a lesson for us.
He got some stuff wrong, looked it up, and corrected it.
WFI is a perfect illustration of what I mean when I say Bob’s Underground Seminar (BUGS) “is for people who have outgrown their college education, whether they had one or not.”
I was a college professor, but I grew out of it.
College TRAINING — there is precious little education in it — teaches us to obsess on details so we will get a 95 instead of a 90 on tests. Every student quickly learns that he is not to waste time on considering concepts or rethinking the doctrine he is being given. All that matters is memorizing the details.
In college, any time spent THINKING is time WASTED.
So EFI’s approach fits him perfectly for BUGS.
A college-trained person reacts to any accusation that he might have gotten a fact wrong with, “Oh my God, it CAN’T be!”
An intellectual, a breed now extinct on campus, gets a fact wrong, is corrected, and says, “Oh. Thanks.”
He then, if necessary, adjusts his world view (Weltanshauung, thanks, Germans) to fit the new information.
Try to find a Politically Correct Mommy Professor doing that.
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