Re: Higher Education Is Overrated

On Thu, 22 Aug 2024 14:49:16 GMT, cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com>
wrote:

On Thu Aug 22 18:42:55 2024 John B.  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

 
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 Cr?cy 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).
 
 
 
 
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Cheers,
 
John B.
 

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More to the point, in the Pacific in WW II the Japanese almost

always outnumbered the Marines but with Bonzi charges threw themselves
into the heavy machine gun fire of the Marines. The Marines were
taught that they have to protect their own lives while the Japanese
were taught that it was their durty to attack. The battlefields were
impossibly filled with death and detruction and the most of it were
Japanese. This endless killing psychologicall affected the Maines in
many ways. Which made their lives harder after the war.

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Yes but :-) The Japanese were more or less "trapped" on the island and
remember surrendering was a no-no in the Japanese military.

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Cheers,

John B.