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#167- Asimov's Foundation Part 2

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What Is an Extraordinary Figure?

What's the point of education? Is it to produce useful consumers or is it to produce the rare extraordinary people? I think it is to instruct people in such a way that they are able to see reality on reality's terms. And then, you know, the excellent among us will be able to do things with the resources we have at our disposal. Yeah, so, yeah, with this drifting into compulsory education, that compulsory education to make everybody learn obedience, you probably wouldn't want there to be extraordinary. If you did, you want to funnel them into your school for guardians and try to control them, put a muzzle on them, make them work for you.Yeah, I guess

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