Well, Mao was entirely correct... When we study war, for instance, we find that most successes on the battlefield were the result of someone being able to think out of the box...

The operative word is "think"...

That's where our educational system is failing... Thinking is not longer something that is considered important... It's no wonder that books are foreign to a population that has been educated in a "rote memory" system... I mean, if you can't think then there is no curiosity... If there is no curiosity then why the heck read books...

The sad part about this is that this is the exact population that Huxley talked about in "Brave New World" and, yeah, we have become the Epsilon Nation...

B~