Will DurantCivilization is not inherited it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew…
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Civilization is not inherited it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew. Is it really? Is it really? Some people think that they’re born into a certain class and class and that’s just the way we live our lives. They say we go to school, we’re taught certain things, we learn how to do that, then when they get older they take their education, they apply it to that same career, they’ll fit in there, then when they retire they retire to that place. But what about all the people who are born into the “poor” class never had the opportunity to go to school? How can you learn how to be rich if you didn’t have any chance of getting rich in the first place? What about all the poor people who don’t even know how to read or write? How can you learn how to be wealthy if you haven’t had any chance of becoming wealthy yourself? The rich are not the only ones who have learned how to be wealthy ,the poor are not the only ones who have learned how to be poor. The rich are not the only ones who have learned how to be intelligent, nor are the poor the only ones who have learned how to become stupid.
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