Re: Making copies of files

[Jeffrey Walton]

On Fri, Apr 2, 2021 at 3:11 PM Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> wrote:
>
> > > In the real world, hardly anyone does things on their own.  Schools 
> > > shouldn't
> > > either.  In the real world, taking advantage of an opportunity is the 
> > > secret
> > > of business success.  Exactly the opposite of scholastic instruction.
> >
> > Can you please explain what you concretely mean by "schools shouldn't 
> > either"?
>
> To me, it sounds like he's proposing that schools should teach you how
> to get other people to do your work for you.  Which is a fine strategy
> unless *everyone* does it, in which case there will be nobody who
> actually knows how to do the work left in the entire world.

I think it's the part about "declining societies" in
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-five-universal-laws-of-human-stupidity.

Jeff