Re: Higher Education Is Overrated

On Thu, 22 Aug 2024 19:36:46 GMT, Roger Merriman <roger@sarlet.com>
wrote:

John B. <slocombjb@gmail.com> wrote:

On Thu, 22 Aug 2024 09:12:49 -0400, Catrike Ryder
<Soloman@old.bikers.org> wrote:
 

On Thu, 22 Aug 2024 18:42:55 +0700, John B. <slocombjb@gmail.com>
wrote:
 

On Thu, 22 Aug 2024 06:04:55 -0400, Catrike Ryder
<Soloman@old.bikers.org> wrote:

 
https://hbr.org/2010/07/higher-education-is-highly-ove

 
The problem is that "higher education" has come to mean "collage
education" when in fact it should be seen as  any advanced knowledge.
 
A rather vivid example is the English Bowman of the 1300's and 1400s
were able to win battles against much larger and much better equipped
French forces.The Battle of Crécy took place on 26 August 1346 between
an English army of from 7,000 to 15,000 (data was somewhat poor in
those days) was able to defeat an army of from 20,000 - 30,000 French
who were equipped with far better equipment. Loses on the English side
was in the region of 1 for every 13-15 French who were killed.
 
In the Battle of Agincourt about 100 year later 6,000 to 8,000 English
took on some 14,000?15,000 French and beat them again with about 600
English losses versus 6,000 French losses, and 600 - 2,000 captured.
 
While the difference in formal education was probably not great, among
the Gentry, the English had a program to encourage archery and boys
might start archery training as early as 10 years of age and there was
a "government program" to manufacture archery supplies, bows and
arrows.
 
By the way, for anyone that cares the "English Long Bow" might better
be called the Welch Long Bow" as it is though it originated in that
country(s).

 
OMG, training 10 year olds to be proficient in weapons designed to
kill people. What's worse, I'll bet that they took those killer
weapons home where they could be shot with them.  Blimey!  Horrors!

 
I would that the "bows" were semi custom to match the child's strength
so undoubtedly they took them home... And even worse,  bows are rapid
fire devices - 12 arrows a minute. One site says 10 - 15 arrows per
minute and a 30 "round magazine" :-)
 
 

You’d need quite extensive training and experience and strength to draw a
long bow, which is significantly heavier draw than modern or even late
medieval bows.
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no original low bows exist oldest are from the Mary Rose which is 100 years
after the Long Bows dominance and the draw of such bows is 3 times of
modern bows or hunting bows of the time.
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Ie to use such a bow you’d need to devote significant effort and time.
>
Roger Merriman

If I remember over 100 lbs draw weight. I also seem to remember that
body's were found with evidence of unusual stress having been applied
to the arm and back, said to have been archers.
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Cheers,

John B.