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“Something in the structure of schools calls forth violence. While latter-day schools don't allow energetic physical discipline, certainly they are state-of-the-art laboratories in humiliation, as your own experience should remind you. In my first years of teaching I was told over and over that humiliation was my best friend, more effective than whipping.
“I witnessed this theory in practice through my time as a teacher. If you were to ask me now whether physical or psychological violence does more damage I would reply that slurs, aspersion, formal ranking, insult, and inference are far and away more deadly. Nor does law protect the tongue-lashed.
-- John Taylor Gatto, NY Public School Teacher,
The Underground History of American Education , page 6
Better a poor and wise youth Than an old and foolish king who will be admonished no more. Ecclesiastes 4:13
Question:
Or what king, going to make war against another king, does not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand? Luke14:31
Answer:
A king who watches too much FOX TV, reads too many Marvel comics, pays attention to the New York Times, and watches too many Hollywood political thrillers.
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Will a closed Strait hurt Iran? In terms of international oil sales, yes, but in terms of daily life, no. Iran pumps 3.5 million barrels of crude oil per day. The situation at this hour:
