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Originally Posted by Malaros
I am reading a book called The Trivium - The Liberal Arts of Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric by Sister Miriam Jospeh.
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Did anyone ever mention the Liberal Arts?
No.
Do yourselves a favour and learn them for yourselves because no educational institution wants to teach you this stuff. You'd almost think they didn't want people to be independent learners and critical thinkers.
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I was equally blown away that this is not included in our secondary education.
However, seeing how often fallacies are used by our government, education and media, it soon becomes clear why they want us vulnerable to their biggest tool.
This discovery was then I knew yet another silly "conspiracy theory" was a stone cold fact: that we were deliberately being dumbed down.
Good post!
