And then there has been the social prejudice against education, although the growth of technology has lessened it. What I am afraid of is the dumbing down of non-tech education. The icing on the current cake is a virtual guarantee that it will be problem proof. "No probs!", ya know what I mean? A really fine example of what is called the big con. Peter "Rickard A. Parker" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >On Mon, 3 Dec 2012 19:45:43 -0800, Chokh Raj <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >>Education was always open > >States had laws against teaching slaves literacy.