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The Prevailing Delusion About Online College Degrees: A Treatise on the Decline of Public Education

face Loretta Pierce event January 23, 2019 828 52 4


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A treatise on American educational decline would fall categorically somewhere between the philosophical disciplines of anthropology and sociology, for in every successful intellectual rise of civilization there has been an aspiration by human beings to learn and pass on that learning to their progeny.

No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful. Nor again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself, because it is pain, but because occasionally circumstances occur in which toil and pain can procure him some great pleasure.

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Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts. The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.

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To take a trivial example, which of us ever undertakes laborious physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it?

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Loretta Pierce

Professional internet nerd. Coffee practitioner. Pop culture maven. Total travel guru. Infuriatingly humble problem solver. Zombie fanatic.

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