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• Bellinghman commented on Sitrep
  Which goes to show how valueless high school philosophy can be. I'm pretty sure most people wouldn't propose kangaroos and wallabies as humans, even if we don't include extinct animals. (One interesting attribute of humans is that we appear to be able to throw better than anything else. Humans: the animal that throws.)...
• Vanzetti commented on Sitrep
  Philosophy is a complete waste of time. Determined high-school kids can recreate the fucking entirety of it by themselves....
• Vanzetti commented on Sitrep
  One interesting attribute of humans is that we appear to be able to throw better than anything else. Humans: the animal that throws Yeah, this exclude fetuses. Also exclude all armless people....
• guthrie commented on Sitrep
  And what about the rest? And the time saved by bringing children up to speed so they can start from standing on the shoulders of giants?...
• Greg. Tingey commented on Sitrep
  @ # 108 - 112 This is re-creating the educational disaster of the period 1975 - 2005 approx in this country ... Where children were encouraged to "discover things for themseleves" Now this was admittedly a reaction to a too-prescriptive menu/curriculum that was previously practised, but the doctrinaire idiots in charge of this forgot ( or more likely never knew in the first place, since none of them were scientists - they were all sociologists, euw ) that ... There is/are an infinite number of wrong answers "out there", to any question. If you are lcuky there might be more...