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If Leary considers them 'the best educated', that goes a long way to explain his state of mind.
Posted by GarandFan | July 16, 2011 11:10 PM
Posted on July 16, 2011 23:10
This is your brain...
This is your brain on drugs...
Any questions?
Here's the whole quote (1987):
"We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. They are a hundred times better educated than their grandparents, and ten times more sophisticated. There has never been such an open-minded group. The problem is that no one is giving them anything fresh. They've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go."
Well, maybe the generation of young people of the late 1980's understood what the 1960's did to morality and culture.
And just maybe the 60's revolutionaries grew up, with the exception of Dr. Leary.
Posted by Dr. Bob | July 16, 2011 11:31 PM
Posted on July 16, 2011 23:31
Hey Dr. Bob
Thanks for the context and rounding out the quote with a contemporary reference. Nice.
Posted by John Cox | July 16, 2011 11:35 PM
Posted on July 16, 2011 23:35
This is killing me. I'm not used to Quiptoons being facetious.
“Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.”
– Bertrand Russell
Applying Russell's aphorism to Leary's statement, pehaps Dr. Leary had a point after all. As the Russian proverb goes: "Even a blind hog finds an acorn every now & then."
Posted by Terwiliger | July 17, 2011 2:24 AM
Posted on July 17, 2011 02:24
Leary's assertion about a generation's open-mindedness being somehow equivalent to "educated" and "sophisticated" was just plain wrong on so many levels. An open mind, kept open without discrimination, soon gets filled with bilge. No need to look too hard for proof of that.
Posted by Ed B | July 17, 2011 3:09 AM
Posted on July 17, 2011 03:09
"Keep an open mind--but not so open that your brains fall out." - attributed to too many to mention
Posted by T | July 17, 2011 5:10 AM
Posted on July 17, 2011 05:10