The ultimate refutation? That one guy 200 years ago, in a massively different country and economy, didn't need formal lawyer training?
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Young Lincoln would work hard in the fields to get a new book. No diversity programs or helicopter parents encouraging him. Lesson there.
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Diligence and curiosity might have once been enough. Today, these are virtuous, but you generally need resources to make anything of them.
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W/out talent, diligence, curiosity more resources useless. Public daycare takes 12 yrs to teach basic literacy better than 19th century?
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12 years isn't so bad. Compared to the 19th century, the population itself is vastly more literate and educated, in general.
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Fewer educated people in 19th century but better talent got education, knowing Latin, ancient Greek considered normal. Quality over quantity
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Fewer people got an education, and the education they received was poorer. You have a very odd perception of quality.
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Compare 19th century popular literature, music, rhetoric to now, what impression do you get? And keep in mind 1/4 of US have 16 yrs of edu.
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