Thanks for this, it's very good. I'd never seen TD before, and from his books I imagined him to be less genial and more irascible. I remember an excellent point he made about his time as a prison doctor, along the lines of: "If a man tells me he is easily led, I ask him whether has has ever been led to an understanding of quadratic equations, or irregular French verbs."
Sam - I imagined him to be irascible too, but maybe his prison work trained him to restrict that to the written word. Yes it is a good video, particularly interesting was his observation that the police and teachers don't know what they are supposed to be doing. Maybe it's a more general public sector problem - I certainly saw it.
It may be wrong of me, but I am looking forward to the day when one of the "Cultural Elite" or a member of their family is "enriched " by one or more of the ever welcome immigrants.
I was thinking this morning, that a lot of the cultural attitudes we have today can be traced in origin all the way back to the huge dislocation to society that was the First World War.
Tammly - I agree, we lost something important along with all those men who died on the battlefields. Something went badly wrong and kicked of decades of decline we don't know how to correct.
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Thanks for this, it's very good. I'd never seen TD before, and from his books I imagined him to be less genial and more irascible. I remember an excellent point he made about his time as a prison doctor, along the lines of: "If a man tells me he is easily led, I ask him whether has has ever been led to an understanding of quadratic equations, or irregular French verbs."
Cultural elites is one way to describe the rapacious.
Sam - I imagined him to be irascible too, but maybe his prison work trained him to restrict that to the written word. Yes it is a good video, particularly interesting was his observation that the police and teachers don't know what they are supposed to be doing. Maybe it's a more general public sector problem - I certainly saw it.
James - there are many, none of them flattering.
It may be wrong of me, but I am looking forward to the day when one of the "Cultural Elite" or a member of their family is "enriched " by one or more of the ever welcome immigrants.
John - that makes two of us, there is nothing like personal experience to bring any message home.
I was thinking this morning, that a lot of the cultural attitudes we have today can be traced in origin all the way back to the huge dislocation to society that was the First World War.
Tammly - I agree, we lost something important along with all those men who died on the battlefields. Something went badly wrong and kicked of decades of decline we don't know how to correct.
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