Postby Technomancer » Wed Jul 02, 2003 6:00 am
Cegep's only about a year isn't it? More like college preparation from what one of my friends told me (sort of equivalent to OAC here in Ontario). What are you planning to study eventually?
The scientific method," Thomas Henry Huxley once wrote, "is nothing but the normal working of the human mind." That is to say, when the mind is working; that is to say further, when it is engaged in corrrecting its mistakes. Taking this point of view, we may conclude that science is not physics, biology, or chemistry—is not even a "subject"—but a moral imperative drawn from a larger narrative whose purpose is to give perspective, balance, and humility to learning.
Neil Postman
(The End of Education)
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge
Isaac Aasimov
, so I was searching for a place where I could talk about anime with other people. And now I've found it!
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