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Subject: Re: What's your take on the new Verizon plan to drop contracts?
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"(PeteCresswell)" <x@y.Invalid> wrote in message 
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> Per SC Tom:
>>I think that should be (or stupid). 'And stupid' makes it sound like poor
>>people are stupid, which isn't necessarily true. I totally agree with your
>>statement though. Must be why Rent-A-Center and all those other rental
>>companies are making money hand over fist.
>
> Maybe splitting semantic hairs, but I would distinguish between "Stupid"
> and "Poor critical thinking skills".
>
> If I had a couple billion and wanted to spend it on one thing to make
> the world a better place I would start a foundation dedicated to
> developing and implementing grade school, middle school, high school,
> and college-level courses in critical thinking.

There isn't any evidence that the most stupid who
are the problem can be taught that by any method.

> One of the two teachers I remember the most fondly was my
> seventh-grade science teacher in Westport Ct, Mr Sheldt.
> One of the exercises he put us through was bringing full-page
> advertisements to class where we picked them apart as to
> what they were trying to do and how they went about it.

And I bet that the most stupid were unaffected by that approach.