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Idea for solving two problems at once: require every prospective college student to spend a certain term (six months, whatever) performing agricultural labour i
by hugh4 11y ago
Idea for solving two problems at once: require every prospective college student to spend a certain term (six months, whatever) performing agricultural labour in order to qualify.
- Retra 11y agoIf you're going to commit a certain number of resources to solving a problem, you'd better make sure you're not failing to solve a more important problem that could use those same resources.
- _delirium 11y agoReminds me of the Maoist solution to the urban/rural divide: send the urban elites to work on the farms for a period, so they could unlearn their bourgeois attitudes, and learn how the rural masses live [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down_to_the_Countryside_Movement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down_to_the_Countryside_Moveme...