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LeftishBrit

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Sun Oct-17-10 11:33 AM
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Have your sick-bag ready...

This is Peter Hitchens sneering at higher education, basically because it might make people start thinking for themselves and rejecting Traditional Morality:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1321137/PETER-HITCHENS-Is-university-really-good-thing-I-spent-years-learning-Trot.html

I suppose I can agree with one thing. It was a waste of taxpayers' money to try to educate Hitchens!

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muriel_volestrangler

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Sun Oct-17-10 06:36 PM
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1. It boils down him saying "I was a lazy student who learnt nothing, therefore all students are lazy

and learn nothing". Yeah, Peter, if everyone was like you, we'd be completely shafted.

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Anarcho-Socialist

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Mon Oct-18-10 01:26 AM
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2. Ha!

I like how he blames the influence of university education for the decline in Britain's manufacturing. A true WTF moment.

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