22-11-2022, 10:57 AM
(21-11-2022, 06:34 PM)Oh_hunnihunni Wrote:(21-11-2022, 06:26 PM)Olive Wrote: That has reminded me of the now defunct University Extension classes that used to be held at high schools after school hours. There was a huge range of subjects at low cost. I can't now remember when they vanished but presume that funding was withdrawn and reinstatement has never been considered.
Around the time education became a product that could be brought and sold, for a profit, rather than a universal human inheritance accessible to anyone who wanted it...
Lifelong learning - it is one of my passion subjects.
Indeed - & thank you & your merry band of greed-crazed bastards, bloody-roger-bloody-douglas!

Who nonetheless, should perhaps be thanked for the lesson he's given us all on what happens when unbridled greed is permitted free rein.

in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)