Re: They hid behind Darwin

robin wrote:

Yeah, I had a young guy like that. Hang in there buddy (Robert
Carnegie). My young friend frankly admitted how ignorant he was, how
baffled by the language he was trying to learn. "Genitive case is like
possessive in English and modern languages."

No shame in admitting your ignorance. (The only shame is remaining
there.)

"Keep trying" (my teachers used to pound away, to me, when I whined.)

A teacher "loses" no matter what she does. We just have to remember
that some seed falls on good soil, the old ones say. While other soil
has never seen the plow. The best learning sometimes takes hard work,
or self-denial, or intellectual "blood, sweat, toil, and tears."

The man who said that was ostracised in his native UK all through the
thirties. Did he "have a point?"

History seems to think he did. See JFK's While England Slept

aequam memento rebus in arduis servare mentem

(or .... don't fret when the going get's tough)


Churchill had the advantage of clarity.


--
Freeper:

"We need to change the law and make it legal to hunt liberals with dogs. "

Me:

I understand you are being flippant, but you are coming across as stupid.

Freeper:

I wasn't being flippant. I mean it.

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