Re: Higher Education Is Overrated

On 8/22/2024 1:01 PM, Roger Merriman wrote:

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

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

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

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The problem is that "higher education" has come to mean "collage
education" when in fact it should be seen as  any advanced knowledge.
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That’s rather less knowledge as bows had been known about for hundred if
not thousands of years but it’s refinement and more importantly tactics,
with such a bow.
 

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.
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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.
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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.
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Bow men weren’t Gentry but the middle classes which was part of the
audacity of it!
 

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).
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That’s is the lore but frankly no one knows, it’s likely to have been used
in both Wales and England note that Welsh means foreigners to the Normans
which includes the English, or rather the Anglo Saxons and other peoples in
Britain at that time.
 Roger Merriman
 

No one claimed the Welsh invented bows but the general familiarity and skill of making and effectively hitting targets with them, across the entire island generally, proved effective.
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