Craig Nicol

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I was being shown the very best of British achievements – Newtonian physics, the theory of evolution, the steam engine – yet being led away from my natural desire to pursue these interests by the outdated bigotry and class conditioning of some of my educators.
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This is the ultimate failure of discrimination within society : stealing ambitions from anyone outside the stereotypes
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It has to: it can’t be imagined within its own framework that ‘people like that’ (whichever othered group is being discussed) are able to have the brains to understand such thoughts; even harder to im…
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Agreed. Stupid and self defeating. Imagine the world we could have now if everyone had equal access to education, and we hadn't eaten so much energy on oppression.
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