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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People from ivy leagues are not like able?

And you fear that ivies will make your kids unlike able? An ivy would undo all the years of training and work your family did?

You sound foolish.

You really think a school makes people unlike able?

Perhaps you should check your insecurities and small minded generalizations.[/quote]

When a school tells you time and time again that you are the best of the best, that you are cream of the crop, you start to get a big head.  Just like when a parent tells their kid the same thing, the kid gets a big head and is not likable.  I have seen that, yes.

What insecurities are you referring to?

Everything we say here is a generalization.  People make generalizations all the time.  It's how we have a frame of reference and make judgement calls.  I'm sure you've done it once or twice in your life.[/quote]

It is true that I/my classes were repeatedly told that we are the cream of the crop. But ITS TRU[/quote]

Mandatory military service for all  - like we used to have - would change that.  Think of the "Greatest Generation."  The men and women who fought the Second World War and defeated fascism and then brought the U.S. to the heights of greatness all served.  The Ivy Leager stood in the same ranks as the kid from the working class. He learned he was no better or no worse.  He was equally capable of taking a bullet for his country as was the working class kid.  It should be the same today.

Do you maggots understand that?  [/quote]

We had a draft and that just about split the country apart.  I agree the greatest generation was the um.. greatest generation, but that was certainly due to other factors besides having served in the military.   [/quote]

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