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|    Oh so rich & successful JTEM to The True Doctor    |
|    Re: Modern forensics offers clues in a 2    |
|    13 Sep 20 11:02:58    |
      From: jtem01@gmail.com              The True Doctor wrote:              > I am talking about all male citizens being taught by the state to read       > and write in exchange for 2 years of national service when they       > graduated. Read Plato and              The subject isn't Greece and even if it were:               Population > Citizens              The common estimate is placed at 20% of Athens -- one out of every       five were a citizen.              So even if they had 100% literacy amongst citizens, which they did not,       that still leaves roughly 80% uneducated.              But, again, that's greece and we're not talking about Greece.              CONSCRIPTS: They're the grunts. They don't need to be educated, they       only need to be disciplined.                                                 -- --              https://jtem.tumblr.com/post/629152786522767360              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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