Medicine, Religion, Education

[dewline]

1. A doctors' office for nerds, cat people (of all orientations and gender identities), and other assorted persons of (many) interest(s):

https://www.boredpanda.com/video-game-family-practice-clinic-therapy-cats/

2. A discussion of religion and Canadian politics on CBC Radio's Sunday Edition:

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thesundayedition/religion-and-canadian-elections-1.5317748

3. What if education was declared a right for Canadians? (Admittedly, I don't phrase the question as Vice Canada does.)

https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/ne89bz/canceling-student-debt-could-help-pay-your-rent-what-if-the-next-pm-did-it

Comments

[thewayne]

One of my best friends is staying with us right now, lost his job in England and is tooling around settling some things and figuring out his next move. We were discussing people failing to educate themselves. The three of us in this house probably have a collective IQ upwards of 500, a ridiculous amount of education among us, and yet we still study things. And to us, to not learn new things is an inconceivable proposition.

And at one level, it falls back to the "the man who does not read holds no advantage over the man who cannot read."

[dewline]

That last quote is a truth, isn't it?

I can't resent the idea of free - more accurately, "pre-paid via taxes"? - education. I might benefit from it myself someday if it comes to pass for one thing. For another, I want future generations of Canadians to have it better than I did, on principle. Also, our retrenching to deal with the consequences of the climate derangement crisis and seize whatever other economic opportunities might come about as a nation might also benefit from this.

[thewayne]

Someone on Slashdot has a sig that said "I like paying taxes - with them I buy civilization."  That's exactly my feelings on the matter.  Taxes are capable of buying very good things.  Free education - maybe that isn't possible, but it certainly can be less expensive and perhaps fully subsidized for the needy.