Tuesday, January 1, 2013

great read from a friend, how to we educate our future leaders and statesman to deal with the new world
http://chronicle.com/article/Scholars-SpiesGlobal/133459/

3 comments:

  1. Excellent piece: especially the part on understand ding the global implications of connections. A concept I need to explicate in documentary film project I have.

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  2. keep reading, I will try to publish as much good stuff as I can. I set up a forum for people to post info that may be useful....just started it a week ago so it may not be "chock full" yet but feel free to take a look. Keep me posted on your film project, I will help when I can.

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  3. Trying to educate leaders in this country is total folly.

    I was in the Defense and International Relations graduate program at MIT, and took courses at Harvard also, and it benefited no one.

    At MIT the great scholars I learned from like Stephen Miller, Jack Ruina, "big George" Rathjens, Charlse Glaser, Stan Sapolsky, Steve Meyers, etc... were JUST WASTING THEIR TIME.

    In the final analysis it DIDN'T MATTER WHAT LESSONS FROM THE PAST THEY TRIED TO IMPART ON US BECAUSE MY GENERATION TURNED OUT TO BE A GAGGLE OF COWARDLY, FECKLESS WEAKLINGS.

    It was MY GENERATION of "NATIONAL SECURITY SCHOLARS"
    who let the last ten years of crimes and carnage come about.

    My generation learned every mistake others had made in the past, and then did worse.

    "Balls around here are as scarce as hen's teeth"

    ---Kris Kristofferson, "Heaven's Gate"

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