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PamelaDrew's avatar

Wayback does have a capture of OpSnowWhite w Michael Baum... too often folks assume someone else will save pages when nobody does bother to save them.. it's not always about influence sometimes its about individuals failing to do it themselves.

https://web.archive.org/web/20201111193712/https://scientology-scandals.com/2018/07/30/attorney-michael-baum/

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GLK: Thanks. Fascinating. If you read "Weapons of Mass Instruction" you'll realize your brother's success without a college degree is not an unusual story. I'm convinced that it is schooling, from pre-K through college, which has dumbed down the entire nation, and is the major reason we are in a free-fall of collapse. Before universal, mandatory schooling (by the early 20th century), we had a literacy rate of 98% (the ability to read on a fourth-grade level). By 1970, this had dropped to 73% (among draftees). Schooling is explicitly not an educational endeavor, but a means of creating an obedient, docile, unthinking population to feed employees to employers. Those of us who survived that system are those who love learning for its own sake and are contrarian enough to be skeptical of authority and the expert class. If I had to do it again, I would home-school my own offspring, and avoid pediatricians like the plague.

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