On 05/09/14 08:20, Timothy Collinson wrote:
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>> On 4 Sep 2014, at 22:50, Andrew Long <xxxxxx@mac.com> wrote:
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>> I'm looking for the thread from several years back that discussed
>> education as "lies for children". I'm afraid that my google-fu has
>> failed me completely. Can someone point me to the approximate
>> period whem this was going down?
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> Are you sure it was here? I have vague recollections of this being a
> Terry Pratchett rant in, maybe, Hogfather??
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> Which doesn't preclude it having been here as well!
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> tc

It's one of the central themes of one of the first two Science of
Discworld books but I can't recall exactly which.

David Shaw