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That was loud and clear

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All right

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First I would like to present you with a book
not that you don't have enough books

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But this particular book was written by a
friend of Thomas Beckett and he wrote it f...

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Didn't have in this author's opinion enough
intellectual self-defense

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And it was written in the 12th century and I
thought if there was such a thing as

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This guy reminds me of you and that you would
greatly enjoy

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I will read it with pleasure 12th century
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of logic and reason and

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A time of irrationality and I took the
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I thought you know, I got a chuckle out of
it, and I thought you could always use a g...

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This will be

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The very next thing I read

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All right now I have one last bit of
housekeeping let me see

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If you could read that to the camera while at
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Holding this mug and it'll be the intro for
the episode

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Or you could change it however you like get
give me the high sign

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Hi, I'm John Taylor Gatto and this is what
you've been missing

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Yesterday the name of our Gordon Lawson came
up and you raised your eyebrows. What does

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That was in wasn't some fringe not but some

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Wall Street heavy hitter

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so I

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Read it with great pleasure not once but to
the fellow part

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Before you leave today, I have a DVD for you.
I just have to burn and I have the folder

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So I just thought you'd get a kick out. I
will get a big kick out of it. What does t...

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Actually, yeah, I

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Corresponded briefly with with Sutton. He
made the contact after he read

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underground history

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and his books about the rise of

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important parts in

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in a slow process of overcoming my own

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Skepticism, I mean I had all the pieces I

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Had many of the pieces rather but they seemed
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Copious reading I had done and and kept
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What why weren't there any?

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references to this at all or occasionally
when someone like

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Ramsey Clark

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Would seem to breach the wall of security
Ramsey was toast

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Well, the same thing happened as to Sutton
because he worked for this the Hoover

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Which is very prestigious and then once they
started reading his work

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They're like you can't write this and he said
that's the ticket out of here

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I must go find out what's going on

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And I think you wrote like nine nine or more
books on these very

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Haramans and all those families that were
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Eugenicists and the the ones that want to do
compulsory schooling and tell you what to ...

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Like there's a very small knit group

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And once you try to understand the philosophy
of what makes them the utopians that are

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Violate their volition. I thought it was like
that's

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The law and it's so simple and yet if you
don't understand the simplicity

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It's easy for these other groups to take it
away from us. Yes

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Very easy to marginalize as who has time for
this nonsense

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I mentioned in our session yesterday that as
I was poking around in

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I kept running into the people who were the
architects of American schooling and I sai...

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Correspondence

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The chapter in underground history

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daughters of the barons are running made is
actually a kind of

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Lens into my brain

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Prove to myself there was some sense in
following this road if if the

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heirs of the people who fought it running
made had maintained an

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850-year

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Continuity and then I found other
organizations that had I said it's possible

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That someone with an agenda other than

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Who was Ignatius Loyola?

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well Loyola was the founder of the

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army of

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Jesus the Jesuits who

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Penetrated the reformation and eventually
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Reformation they slowed the momentum down

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Eminence Greece

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Luther's every man his own priest is this
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declaration of radicalism

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Who to get rid of the religious priesthood is
to get rid of all middleman. Yes

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And one of those was the the province or
electorate of Bavaria

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And then there was a Jesuit professor of
canon law named Adam Beishaupt who created...

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Has that group had on the education system?

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To pursue that line

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would require so many illusions I

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To enter an area where I can't field the
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substantive facts, but certainly

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the sense of

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Powers behind the scenes very very strong.
Let me give you a few specifics

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It's been clear since the beginning of
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That the tests do not predict and the best
American the most prestigious American

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universities have either

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Dismissed it or kept it in a pro forma place,
but actually as Harvard and

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Princeton told me it's not a

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Significant to turn and they just don't want
to rock the boat that hold the glue that

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10% of the school year and school budget
devoted to

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exerting stress on so many millions of people
and through the children their families and

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Why does so many?

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Innocently ignorant school teachers say this
will determine your future when it only does

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Then it determines your future. It has no
predictive power at all other than to signal

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This is someone who will memorize whatever
you ask him to memorize

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This is a useful skill

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I'm an anti-skill in the book the Leipzig
connection basics and education toward the

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Working and experimenting on Swiss lower
privileged children in the universal

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He was also a grandmaster of the Illuminati

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So since Pestilosi and Laviter and all these
other key figures that were in the Prussia...

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Yeah, we're also members of the Prussian
Illuminati

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It just seemed natural to see the the
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Incoherent and it just seems like there is a
very militaristic strategy that's been in

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mechanism is it's an artificial

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extension of childhood

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Theoretically to the grave, but but certainly
beyond the point where learning anything i...

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rendered somebody

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harmless

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You know you can see it in its crudest form

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In the military in the training of recruits
or in fraternities in the hazing of

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Richard Branson and the turning point of his
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four

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When his mother drops him miles from home

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Throughout most of human history anywhere on
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Childhood is over by the age of seven and
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people are

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Even in our own country at the beginning of
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A substantial number of young women at the
age of 13 were married or becoming married...

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That used to be for 20 years the premium of
book of the month club

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Written by a husband and wife team

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I rather respectable history in and inside
historians say it's not bad history. It's

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They also do a history philosophy set. Yes

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It's on my desk if you want to go get it.
There's it was like all we need is is the

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In any case the fellow

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Who had been trained? I think at u. Chicago
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marries

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His wife who becomes his co-writer and will
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13 or 15

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Dispute on the internet about how she wasn't
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some form of sexual

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oppressor

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No instead of going to junior high school
aerial studied

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professional historiography and its protocols

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And she was a full partner in the writing and
will died

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Predeceased her 10 years and she continued to
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When people began their productive lives to
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To the late teens or beyond the late teens is
to fly in the face of

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American history being in charge of a warship
Farragut Farragut at the age of 12

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or or

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Farragut.

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Farragut at the age of 12, or George
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in his mid-teens.

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Very entrepreneurial attitudes that they
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Or Jefferson running a plantation, his
parents both dead, 250 employees.

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Why have we marginalized the young who
whatever they lack and experience more tha...

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for in resilience, in acuity, they bring new
eyes, old situations, which is the secret

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of scientific invention.

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And of course that must have been understood
way way back in history.

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Alexander the Great after all.

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You're noticing, you're observing that values
have changed since the time of our founding

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fathers who were literate, autonomous,
entrepreneurial.

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They also grew hemp.

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They knew the value of hemp.

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Oh my.

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And Jefferson traveled the planet collecting
different strains, and they had contests and

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they wrote letters about their, you know,
"Hey, I've grown this strain, and it does

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this," and they're like competing.

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And so the fact that you're not taught about
this in school and the role that hemp played

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in making the sales and the clothing and
everything was hemp dependent.

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Oh, it's a miraculous fiber.

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they were the largest forest owners in the
country.

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They supplied the wood pulp for newspapers,
but hemp newspapers are infinitely superior

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to wood pulp.

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So if we're using wood pulp paper to make
books these days, we're not only killing

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trees which eat CO2 and produce oxygen to
make paper towels and toilet paper and all

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these other things beyond books, but I
noticed that a lot of the books that are

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the pages are disintegrating.

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still pretty, you know, existent.

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We have a Johnson's Dictionary from 1848, and
it's not printed on the same wood pulp

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acid, you know, paper that we have today.

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So can you comment on, they undermine
education, but they're also undermining ju...

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to get our hands on the books to educate
ourselves, closing libraries, and using ty...

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that, you know, basically turn to dust.

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wise guy ethic that you don't actually need
to read these old books because there are

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plenty of abstracts digest to these old books
in existence, and that will give you the guts

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of the old book.

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What the digest don't give you is the
wealthiest, most powerful man in the world.

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I mean, I don't know if that confluence has
ever existed after Aurelius, saying that

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you can buy is worth having, and nobody you
can order around with your power is worth

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with.

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So how old were you when you first met Marcus
Aurelius?

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I was initially in translation in sixth grade
in a coal mining town in western Pennsylvania

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where it was offered in translation, and of
course it's eminently readable.

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else.

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So my mother insisted that I read it, Julius
Caesar in Latin, Galea, Stoneman of Stuyz,

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and Partace Trace at 75, Coromundum in
Cologne, Belgium, we had to memorize the

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of it.

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read to plug in the ancient world, it
establishes the principle that a weaker fo...

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a larger force by dividing and being better
prepared.

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classes are set against one another by
constant meaningless testing and small

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processes being given to the people who test
best and wiggle their hands in the air so

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I noticed when I was in basic training in the
army, and was told that I was going to

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learn in three hours how to take a rifle with
57 parts of blindfold and put it back

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And yet in a room with 500 other scared young
people, we all did it.

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And they didn't say, and he finished first,
the important thing is what do we learn

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It gets in the way because now your rank
becomes a factor rather than the quality o...

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learned.

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I made these ideas clear to 13-year-olds at
all times and found that after about 90 days

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Whenever a new idea would emerge in the
classroom, this is quite literally true.

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I would grab a piece of chalk and write it on
the wall, I'd climb a ladder and write

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it on the ceiling.

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when there was no room left, front, back,
sides of the room, I had world maps and

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maps and I could leap up and point to the
origin of the idea as we know it or

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they came.

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who had never eaten off a table before in
their life were actually, they were hot to

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talk about ideas.

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We couldn't have that, how could we maintain
the social order and the economic order if

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knocked down.

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I think a lot of the problem, it's very easy
to assign this completely to sinister motives

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and there are certainly sinister motives at
work, but I think part of it is the problem

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has been able to solve that problem.

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The early America probably did it better than
anyone we have easy access to.

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I think it's not about anarchy, anarchy is
just a void or a vacuum of government, it's

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about being autonomous and if you take away
the government it doesn't automatically give

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that they need to work together with other
people to achieve goals.

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In your explanation of how you learned the
most powerful lesson of doing the impossible,

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you knew you couldn't do that and after an
hour or so you had just done something that

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you knew you couldn't do.

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I knew I couldn't do it.

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You took that experience and you taught
younger people that they can do that becau...

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have more years.

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You had to be at least 18 to be in the army.

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really know that.

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You need to get that up here first.

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The question that I'd follow up with is in
your third interview on Gnostic Media with

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John Irvin, I heard you mention in these
words "trivium and quadrivium" and I thought

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it maybe something that was off your radar
but you spoke eloquently about it and so

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do you have familiarity with the trivium and
quadrivium and what does it mean to you?

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a half and eight and a half years old and the
curriculum reflecting back on it which

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way for our tender years and the devices of
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They were not cherry of using but I do
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I remember being humiliated, I told you
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St. Vincent's College which is across the
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But the brother was talking to us in the
middle of the Second World War about the

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the First World War and he had written a list
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I had a magnificent memory before drinking or
veined and he said could somebody face

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for word and he burst into a harsh kind of
laughter and he said you fool, you believe

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me, he erased the board and said these are
the causes of the war, now could you do it

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He did it again, he erased the board and said
you will never know the causes until you

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yourself into the primary documents and see
how complicated a thing this is.

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can form your logical understanding he said
you need to get in check with the knowledge,

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the actual grammar, what are the artifacts,
what are these things documented, what's

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primary sources and it probably has occurred
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and what happens as you collect data is that
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and so they created a two formula, a basic
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listeners to read her essay, "The Lost Tools
of Learning." She's a marvelous detective

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writer, and the detective stories really
aren't genre stories. They're a comedy of

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in which you could dispel confusion, and then
the quadrivium was pushing it farther

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organize the agenda and the goals in terms of
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you're actually after. Take the universal
study of the English language. What you're

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divisions, and now if you're after those
things, your measurements not through memo...

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The standardized tests aren't predictive, and
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select people because they scored here on the
SATs or whatever, other tests are

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in real life, we don't use standardized tests
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trivium to observe, to process that
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there are personal variants, so I think the
fundamental thing is every philosopher in

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trivium and quadrivium, and you can do a
personal adaptation of the, you know how t...

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for you, but the course I actually followed
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it will be in the most expensive elite
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although it paid off at the end of the first
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because most private schools follow the
template that public schools lay down. I'm

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inner circle, 20 or so. Let me just name a
few of them. I'm talking about Groton, whe...

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who ran for president, the tall skinny guy,
John Kerry, emerged. I'm talking about

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the Bush family went. I'm talking about
Chote, where John F. Kennedy emerged. I'm

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the populace, give me a break, emerged. I
learned about Episcopal from the sports

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of a newspaper. I'm looking for the next
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alumni showed up." It's got to be a misprint.
I mean, I can understand 1,000. 25,000 peo...

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from all over the world for a high school
alumni game. So now I start to look and I

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in upscale education. Over half of the elite
boarding schools in the country and all of

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the inner circle ones are grounded on
religion, almost all on the Anglican

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mind. But also there's a respectable number
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a tiny fraction of the population, no more
than 100,000 people. It's produced in the

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the odds of this little splinter group, who
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Well, so anyway, so I got the 12 seconds. I'd
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It was roughly 90 days because at first
Harlem kids don't believe that anything

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is going to happen at school. But after about
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wondered about, I'm called in and accused of
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You must have written that for, I said I will
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there. So I began to get hot water ever
since. Let me share a few of these. We all

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that literacy is at the heart of an
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and active literacy, speaking and writing.
None of us are aware that in colonial days,

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to teach active literacy to ordinary people
was a crime. Why? Because reading, you're

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what to do. But if you can speak well as our
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beyond your own skull and recruit allies.
That's a no-no for ordinary people. They'r...

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no one treats them seriously. So strong
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private boarding schools like Groton, St.
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more than one. Canton, Connecticut is J.P.
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into all institutional forms. You're supposed
to know the logic, the steps that we arrived

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Third, here's some of your listeners,
watchers, viewers, will be school teachers.

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And if you teach history or literature, you
will run into a great deal of difficulty

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But if you approach those subjects and share
this with the kids, that what we're after

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a good story or memorizing details from Jane
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nature. And anyone who's written a book that
lasts more than their own time has spent

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might spend a lifetime and never have. So
that's what we're after. A theory of human

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from history or philosophy or literature or
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a century ago and nobody wanted them at
auctions. But I bought them because they w...

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day I have a barn in upstate New York. I
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there. And I said interesting that theology
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ordinary people. So a few other of the
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to take kids who had never eaten off a
tablecloth and get them to see that the si...

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when there's an egg glass spilled on the
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They're like little badges that I don't want
to speak to that person. And a lot of what we

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unknown to the person who then is
discriminated against. And I said don't

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excuse we'll use is I'm sending you out of
school for days to gather data.

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for days to gather data for statistical
processing. We're going to test the local

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comparison with what the New York Times says
the nation is thinking and I'll teach you the

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meanwhile you don't want to approach somebody
having to jump back or say if you don't ge...

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from me I'll call the police and that's what
you think will happen because of the

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prejudice on the liberal west side of
Manhattan but it won't happen I guarantee ...

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simply from having a gloss on these social
forms and then this should this should tickle

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people watching this segment then suddenly I
saw that the rules of access to the great

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building where the gold is kept down in Wall
Street one teacher for every five students

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public school class of 30 students you're not
going to muster six teachers but I sent to

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kids how do they know you're not a teacher
well we're only 13 nobody knows that they

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they know it because you slouch they know it
because you giggle they know it because you

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carry a notebook that falls on the ground
every few minutes the paper goes everywher...

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master what a college student who could be a
student teacher what signs they would give

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nasty and taking attendance every few minutes
or saying when your mother hears about this

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joke you know I said let's see if we can pick
five people out of this class and penetrate

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not once on the Bronx Zoo says one for every
15 kids but how are you going to even get two

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teachers to take kids to Bronx Zoo there well
it's easy if the kids can shift from being 13

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real self-esteem because in real confidence
from experience and to be able to go into

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sit in the back of a class and see what
college is like before you have to go to

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a lot of anxiety I don't know why you said
that but we oh okay we were only 20 blocks

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these banks of seats and the only way no one
takes attendance there your your grades on

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are evidence of whether you've been attending
or not but if you sit there slouch and

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extension of childhood that we talked about
the beginning of this this particular session

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is a secret of crowd control where people
become their own prisoners by adopting the

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as languages there isn't one English language
you know they're 10 that are modified

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you know and someone like a bomb how I'm not
sure they understand this and they can shift

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here's why you're reading English poetry now
there are a lot of reasons but here's why

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doing it you're going to find that the
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of intellect and you have more to say or more
nuances to say you need larger units of

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septameters and I want you to feel that and
you'll feel it by reading and memorizing s...

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poetry you'll have you'll have the models
built into your head to shift back and for...

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reasons you don't want to even look at
Shakespeare is all the lines seem to be

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length but I'm going to teach you something
that he knew four centuries ago it looks l...

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pause is 12 before you've delivered your me
three four there's this inner jazz at work

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underneath this regular pattern you can learn
to do that once someone exposes the secret...

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so you don't have to think now here and yet
we use an exercise that if I tell you

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horribly dull writers into at least modestly
interesting writers and it's totally

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write one to 20 on 20 pieces of paper put
them in some sort of container and draw th...

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and then list what you've drawn out at random
on and I said now you're going home not fo...

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first number the count the first sentence
will be one word long one beat long if the

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20 it'll be 20 long immediately these horror
remember I had to read 120 of these things

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a three or a four unit or a mixture and there
now they had the kind of jams that readers

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completely conscious of but they record as
something interesting about even when he's

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being separated on a russian farm in the
1920s why is it so awfully interesting

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things that the eye is looking at the
movement of light around the screen it's

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students can and then they become
preternaturally sophisticated what are ear...

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these things because they're our birthright
we're biologically equipped to learn this ...

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we've all heard about the hard what's going
on okay i just need you to for a minute you

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could just reframe this camera because i
think something happened no but i came in ...

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that everyone will profit and you'll see some
evidences of the trivium at work here thes...

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the 12 secrets of the elite boarding school
curriculum apart are we on yet or just jus...

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schools specifically like what is different
they're doing this and this is about their

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life and managing the other people who don't
know it oh yeah right well the the next on...

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absolute eye opener that took me about five
years to tease out of the admissions