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Remember all the things you learned at school: the periodic table and calculus and Egyptian pharaohs and dangling participles and the causes of the First World War.
Now think about what you learned at school that is actually useful in your everyday life today. Excluding obvious basics such as reading, writing and arithmetic, I’d nominate two things, neither of which I imagined would turn out to be so handy. The first is touch typing. The second is what the teacher announced in the opening class of Grade 11 economics: wants are unlimited but resources are limited.
It’s something I think about all the time. For example, I like to imagine that if I had an iPad with The New Yorker application on it, I’d be Perfectly Happy for the Rest of My Life. Sadly though, I predict that soon after, there’d be a strong hankering for a stylish red leather pouch for said iPad.
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On this day in 2010 Queen Joolya launched yet another solution tp our woes. Maybe someone needs to tell her that the garbage bag with lapels she wore yesterday isn’t a good look! Read more »
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T.Chong you won’t find me on Face book either. Letting the whole world in to my private life is rather unappealing to me. Maybe I’m just getting old. Read more »
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